Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

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

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

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

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he