Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
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...
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found