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...

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

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…

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

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...