Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.