We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

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...

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney