Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

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

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.