They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
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...
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
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...
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
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
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,