Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars