It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney