The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…