after Baghdad
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
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, ...
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,