Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

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

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

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

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.