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I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
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.
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 ...
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Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
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
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
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
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
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,