Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
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…
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
