Through the modest window above their bed, the young woman lay still and listened to voices of passersby with words lifting and falling....

I never thought about living in a nursing home until a social worker declared that Mother needed the care given in such a place. The...

Bright and sassy, Joy caught a cowbird with a broken leg. She mended it, taught it to whistle, named it Ringo, gave it a television. ...

Outside, a scowling mass of black clouds refuses to let a ray of light pass through. Leaves tug at trees. Thunder crumples sky,...