Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

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