Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.