The Green Notes on My Furniture
The first one I saw was blue, and it was stuck to the glass of my china cabinet at about the height of my son’s… Read more
The Medals My Sister Sold
Forty dollars. That is what my brother’s Purple Heart, his Bronze Star, and the flag they folded off his coffin in 1969 were marked at… Read more
The Organ The New Pastor Sold
I am seventy-one years old, and until this spring I believed there were some things in a small town that simply could not be taken… Read more
The Pay They Docked For The Funeral
I have poured coffee at the Starlite Cafe on Main Street in Dunmore, Nebraska for twenty two years, and in all that time I only… Read more
The Kids Table They Sat Me At
The first thing I noticed when I walked into my son’s house that Thanksgiving was that my name was not on the dining room table…. Read more
