When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

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

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf