Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

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

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,

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know