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 ...
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make