America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

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...

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me