It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

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

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

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, ...

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth