Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.