In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

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

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often