He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
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,
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
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…
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found