A Cord of Three Strands
Two impoverished boys born a world apart: Fred, a native Mississippian was an American soldier in Germany at the same time Nikolai was imprisoned as a Russian soldier. Unwittingly their lives would be woven together for a lifetime and how much so would be revealed more than sixty years later. The Weaver’s hands unseen by [...]
The Masks We Wear
I called a former classmate’s mother to try to reconnect. I haven’t seen him in nearly twenty years. Her evasiveness made me wonder, Could it just be a mind gone bad? I told her who I was, my daddy’s name –one that establishes our reputation. I went on to say I had once attended the [...]
Donuts and Diet Coke
On my way to teach a class this morning I stopped by a local donut shop for a sausage, cheese and jalapeno kolache. The man at the counter placing his order in front of me requested donuts for his wife, a variety of donut holes for his son, then for himself a kolache, cake donut, [...]
