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…

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

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

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

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...

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues