After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

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.

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding