In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

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 ...

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…