He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day