Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job