If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
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,
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers