No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...