For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

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

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever