Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
