We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.