Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

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

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

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

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

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