A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.