Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to