It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

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...

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere