The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…