By Jim Parks Moving in a flurry of activity, getting the old couple seated, flitting about for extra napkins, a bottle of pepper sauce, more...

By Jim Parks If people wait until public health officials offer them vaccination for the dreaded H1N1 swine flu that that UN doctors have te...

By Jim Parks If one set out to make it up out of whole cloth, the story would tax even the most fertile imagination. However, any reasonable...

At the automatic teller machine, a tom cat trotted across new mown grass, up a sidewalk, tail held high in the sudden autumn breeze. I meowe...

Amid the Monday morning hubbub and confusion of an empanelment of enough veniremen to seat juries in three district courts and two country c...

By Jim Parks The little kids who play there know. "Yeah, they sell drugs here," a young Hispanic boy of perhaps nine or ten says a...

By Jim Parks Kneeling on one knee, the classic posture of prayer or attentiveness among men of my ethnic type, I take up way too much floor ...