Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

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.

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple