Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about