I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

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

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...