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...

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world