A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

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

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people