Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

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

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

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

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,