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

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

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.

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.