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.
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
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.
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field