It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,