I slouched down in the passenger seat of our old Pontiac ’cause it was the cool way to sit when one is in the fourth grade. My dad was driving d...
When we’re young and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sunset.No o...
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy about six or seven was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes...
I was the only family member living close by, so I received the initial call from the nursing home. Grandpa was failing rapidly. I should come. There ...
Can it really be thirty years since I received the last of the payments from Annie Mae? I find myself thinking about them more often as I approach my ...
His name was Bill. He had wild hair, wore a T-shirt with holes in it, blue jeans and no shoes. In the entire time I knew him I never once saw Bill wea...
A young minister had been called to serve at an old church that at one time had been a magnificent edifice in a wealthy part of town. Now the area was...
I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was fourteen, my little sister, Ocy, was twelve and my older sister, Darlene, was sixteen. We lived at home wit...
Fox River gave life to the country town of Colby Point, for the road and the river ran alongside one another. Colby Point was really the name of a roa...
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.For my grandchildren, I’d know better.I’d really like for them...