Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar