Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

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

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