Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
