Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

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

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

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.