My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches