A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
