My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

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

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d