I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

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...

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

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts