A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than