My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
