In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."