He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she