From far away came the sound of the last Christmas carols of the evening. The laughter of families gathered for the holidays drifted into the silence of the falling snow. The holiday sounds added warmth to the cold night air as a burly man with a black beard stood behind a rusty barrel warming his … Read more
I bumped into a stranger as he passed by. “Oh, …excuse me, please” was my reply. He said, “Please excuse me too; I wasn’t even watching for you.” Oh, we were polite — this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said our good-bye. But at home a different story is told, … Read more
A weary mother returned from the store lugging groceries through the kitchen door. Awaiting her arrival was her 8-year-old son, anxious to relate what his younger brother had done. “While I was out playing and Dad was on a call, T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall! It’s on the new paper you … Read more