They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments