It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

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

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…