I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
