There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

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

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.