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.
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear