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It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
