The Useless Barn That Saved a Town
For most of my life I was ashamed of my father’s barn. I need to say that plainly, right at the start, because everything else… Read more
The Turkey Swap That Fed the Street
I have lived in the same building on Larkspur Street for nineteen years, and for eighteen of them I would have told you I knew… Read more
The Speaker That Ordered Everything Wrong
It was 6:52 on a Tuesday morning in the second week of March when I stood in my own kitchen in my long johns and… Read more
The Secret Behind Aunt Reba’s Chili
At 4:52 that Tuesday afternoon, three weeks after we buried my Aunt Reba, my cousin Corabeth let out a sound from the back of her… Read more
The Sea Bag My Granddaughter Almost Gave Away
My granddaughter Piper had it halfway into the trunk of Pearl Hutchins’s church van before I even knew what was happening. Fifty-two years of my… Read more
The Scarecrow Contest That Ended Our Feud
For ten years I lost the Harlow County autumn scarecrow contest to the same man, and for ten years I told anybody who would hold… Read more
