Snowbrush

Peggy taught high school math and science in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, in the mid-seventies. She was 22 and diminutive with a trim figure...

I regarded Trump's election as a flip of the bird at the condescension of liberalism's most prominent faces, Barack Obama and Hill...

A work by F. Hopkinson Smith I went to the doctor last week for my six week check-in (which was a week overdue) and was told that I’m ...

Daddy's Little Huntress I didn't grow up calling a tabby cat a tabby cat . I grew up calling a tabby cat a brindled cat . Pe...

Three weeks post knee replacement, I've gone from using a walker, to two crutches, to one crutch, to a trekking pole (an adjustable wa...

Sacred Heart Hospital "O, the joy! Oh yeah, uh!" Explorer William Clark upon reaching Oregon's Pacific shore in 1805. W...

Men Sleeping in the Rain, Green Park, London, 1902 "It was a welter of rags and filth, of all manner of loathsome skin diseases...

I'm 68, and spent my first 37 years in Mississippi, most of them in the vicinity of Brookhaven, a town of 11,000. By 1983, I was ...

I’ve seen so many orthopedists over the years that I’ve lost count. Yesterday, I went to a new one for my left knee which has bothered me ...

Jeremy Joseph Christian Three men had their throats slashed on a commuter train in Portland (100 miles up the road from...