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…

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,