Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…