After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

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

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

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes