When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

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

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

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, ...

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

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

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden