There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off