Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them