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
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
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.
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother