I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…