The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
