Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
