Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,