During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

“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,…