Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

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

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.