Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house