On Being Simply True

Once upon a time, Sgt. Thomas Tibbs looked like this. So this happened: Not long after I moved in August—to this place with clean...

Missouri has lost a true treasure of a native son, and I have lost another piece of my heart. Bob Fiedler passed away on March 18th. ...

Yesterday the crows brought a dead rat into the back yard, dropped it on a planter, then spent the day snacking on it. I didn't begrudg...

I suppose I've been a singer longer than I've been a writer. I started writing in the fourth grade, but I was singing from the ...

Today Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced by the GOP because she began to read words that would impugn the character of our about-to-be At...

In the eight years I've been posting to this, my beloved blog space, I have never had a guest writer. There's a first time ...

When Robert Frost began his poem "Directive" with this line, "Back out of all this now too much for us," he did so as pr...