Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

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

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

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…