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...

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly