In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.