Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings