Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
