When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

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

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…