Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

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

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

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.

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...

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able