He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but