Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner