We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

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

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…