I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed
Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…