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...

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was