If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

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.

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...