Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.

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,

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

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,