As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world