If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
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...
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.