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

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. 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...

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

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

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…

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.