It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

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…

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…