We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

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...

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when