He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
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
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
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…
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys