Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

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.

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

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