We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

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

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars