We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.