I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.