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After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
Remember, a blind man can see things a sighted man can’t… So I’ll tell you about her and th… you can tell me whether I’m right. The first time a man meets her,
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.
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
