I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

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...

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

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...

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

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