Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than