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...

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

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

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

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

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup