Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
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...
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
