“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

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

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

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

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

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, ...

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people