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

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife