They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

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

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

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

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

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…

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

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.

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it