Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

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

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building