Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
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.
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
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
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
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...
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.