I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

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

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

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

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

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

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

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…

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

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, ...