It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

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

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

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

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd