Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

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…

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

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...

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

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

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused