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

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

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

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

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,

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but