Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

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

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…