Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
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 ...
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
