NIGHT WATCH by Roy Popkin A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he...
Helping Others
A Christmas Story
A CHRISTMAS STORY It was only five days before Christmas. The spirit of the season hadn’t yet caught up with me, even though cars packed the parking lot of our Houston area Target Shopping Center. Inside the store, it was worse. Shopping carts and last minute shoppers jammed the...
The Blind Bus Passenger
THE BLIND BUS PASSENGER The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the...
Selfless Dedication
SELFLESS DEDICATION In a small town in America, there was a Doctor Brackett. He was known as the poor man’s friend because he spent hours at the bedside of unfortunates and never ever took a fee from them. He lived in two upstairs rooms over a grocery store. At...
The Shoes
THE SHOES My alarm went off — it was Sunday again; I was tired — it was my one day to sleep in. But the guilt I’d have felt the rest of the day Would have been too much, so I’d go; I’d pray. I showered and shaved, adjusted...