In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

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…

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

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.