7 April view of the Wakarusa River Spent the early afternoon downtown. Had lunch with the Market Street Irregulars and then had the...

[Indianapolis:] Part of me wanted to miss the bus, or for something to go wrong in Louisville just so I could have one more minute w...

I was traveling when my wife and got together. Our courtship was one of distance and of patience: letters, emails, phone calls when a ch...

[I first published this story on my old American Re:visionary Blog. But, as I grow and expand my Rubber Tramp Stories, I thought it was ap...

Part of outreach means we end up seeing some the same people over and over. Sometimes we don't see certain folks for a span of time ...

I met a hobo once, through a mutual friend. He came in on a southbound CSX and hopped off about seven blocks from my house, near a McDon...

[This is Part 2 of a series that I'll add to intermittently. It may come in waves of two or three posts in a row, or it may be weeks o...

I spied the end of a sex transaction while walking to the coffee shop. As I rounded the corner from my street to the main artery, I saw ...

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. ~ Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Check out more of Beth...

  My father, I think, wanted to be a deliberate man. On days when the boil in my blood near overflows I imagine what the se...

I let her lead the way up the stairs and while we were walking she hummed this funny little tune to herself, and every time I tried talk...

Ignore the monsters in the shadows. Life is not like your childhood cartoons, and that is not a cape on your back. The st...

Ethel knew there was just something not right about the boy, and she could never quite lay her finger on what it was. He ran around lik...

I knew something was wrong when Twila gave me the stink eye outside the student union. Divorces are difficult enough. Being young – to...