Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

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

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

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…

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why