When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.