This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

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

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

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

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

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.