Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

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....

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad