Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
