It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,