Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
