We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Jane told Tarzan toodle-oo and moved away to Arizona because although it’s hot out ther… it’s a dry heat and not the swamp of heat she found herself panting
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
