Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

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...

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

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

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,