It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
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
Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,