His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
