I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through