Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

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,

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.