This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

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

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but