Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth