When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.
