Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

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

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana