My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

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…

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he