The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them