You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
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…
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
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…