It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

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...

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.