Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

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

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…