Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar
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 ...
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon