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

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

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

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me