You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

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

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.