A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
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…
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
