The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees