Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

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

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings