HOMEWOOD, IL — A little more than 50 years ago, two St. James Hospital employees might not have realized it, but fate was circling. Heck, it was about to knock them upside the head as if to say, "I'm ...

The death of his wife of 40 years was devastating. The loss was one thing Bill Burkholder, known as the Fix-It Man of Hunter, N.D., couldn't fix. At least, he couldn't do it himself. But someone came ...

The time I used to spend on Twitter I now spend on Substack, and my life is much better for it. There are a lot of interesting, eclectic writers in the world. This week, for example, I stumbled across ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Recently, my 28-year-old daughter called me seeking counsel on the state of her love life: How do I know if the ...