You may recall a year or so ago I admitted that I had fallen for the slick advertising and upgraded my cellular phone to one of those fancy-dancy, gosh-wow-did-you-see-that-Ma? touch screen phones. It wasn’t an iPhone. It was a knockoff. But this bad boy had... »

There’s been an ever-present tightness in my chest, a slight nausea in my solar plexus for months now. I am anxious yet lethargic; apprehensive but careless. Down and out, of course. Melancholy. Depressed. Call it what you want. Harry Middleton called it “the meat bucket... »

The escape of vicious killers from an Arizona medium-security prison has horrified the nation this week. Two convicts, aided by a fiancée of one of them, were linked to the brutal murders of an elderly couple whose charred remains were found in a camper in... »

I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord... »