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

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

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

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength