He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

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

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

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

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

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