I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to