Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

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

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

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

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.