If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

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…

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

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

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

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

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up