A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

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

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

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

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

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?