“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month