Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

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

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

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

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet