It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
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
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
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…
