As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made