There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
