Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

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.

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.