I attended the Catholic church in my youth and think about God a lot. I don’t attend Mass anymore and have developed a skepasism of

By Mark Ready   Penny               My older sister Penny seemed to enjoy tormenting our father. Dad wasn’t especially excitable or prone to emotional

If I’d known about the mental illness If I’d known, I’d turn to drink. If I’d known your mom would die If I’d known at

  By Mark Ready   Two degrees colder, and the biting rain would be snow. Misty shivered in the pink crop top, and tiny shorts

 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

    The KXLY Dialing for Dollars afternoon movie was the 1939 version of the Man in the Iron Mask. Aunt Sister thought watching TV

Agatha Jones received the hand-addressed pale pink envelope from the young chubby blonde woman who brought her lunch. “You got a pretty letter, Agatha. Would

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I’d begun splitting Red Fir and Tamarack rounds, so I’d stop shaking. The mortgage company was foreclosing on our business, The Upper Creek General Store.

Women in ancient Egypt used honey, acacia fruit, and acacia leaves as natural spermicides. Controlling her pregnancies has always been in a woman’s best interest.