Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

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

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me