Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
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 ...
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.