Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

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

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.