An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

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

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