A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city