Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up