A sheriff's deputy wondered at the hearse parked outside the Kitty Kat topless bar at 2:30 a.m. so he decided to investigate. He didn't see the owner of the … [Read More...]
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Calculating Texts for Seniors
Calculating my texts? This could be me. Or maybe you. What senior hasn't done the same thing or something so similar---the phone rings and you pick up … [Read More...]
Personal Essay
From Padlock to Glory—Ginger Shines at ASU
A cabin hidden behind a padlocked gate, Revelation and a .38. but Ginger escaped. In 2000 she left with her two boys, her hair wet with the coffee her husband had poured over her head. That day marked an ending and a beginning—for Ginger and countless others whose lives she has rescued or saved. Ginger […]
Teen Saves Kidnapped Woman
An alert seventeen-year-old in Montreal sensed something was wrong. He saw the woman resisting the man but he couldn’t be sure. So he pretended to befriend the man, buddied up to him, pretended to be traveling to the same town as the man and woman, all to keep the woman in public view until he […]
Funeral Fresh Flowers
“Funeral Fresh Flowers” read the sign on the plate glass window of a florist shop, and I did a doubletake. Funeral fresh? What on earth does “funeral fresh” mean? I saw that sign in 1994 when we moved to Florence, Alabama, and have wondered about it ever since. I can stretch and twist the words, […]