The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

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

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...