When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,