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

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

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

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

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

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...