Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney