After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

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

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

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…

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,