You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

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

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.

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine