Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

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.

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

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture