Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
