He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

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

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

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