A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
