I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
“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
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...