Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans