A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

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

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

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...