He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

“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 ...

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

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

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...