Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

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...

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney