They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
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...
