Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.