Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...