Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
