Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

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

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney