The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

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

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.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

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