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,

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport