We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
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…
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
