The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

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

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk