Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,