I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…