You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

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

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month