When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
“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
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
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...
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections