She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

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

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber