When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

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…

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city