An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially