We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

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 ...

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon