The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

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

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.