Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...
Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…