It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

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

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

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

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she