Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

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 morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in