Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

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,

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. 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.

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves