Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

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…

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,