Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

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

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.