Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...