I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

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

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

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

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

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

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck