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

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

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

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.