Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings