Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

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

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...