If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

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 have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

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

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney