David Budbill wrote a short poem that can be found in his poetry book Happy Life. A Certain Slant of Light A certain slant of light this...

My earliest teachers: my mama and my daddy, Grandma Guffey, Aunt Effie, Aunt Mary Ellen, siblings, too—my older brother, for sure. We...

I’m a big picture person. Not a detail person. It’s a gift and a curse. Names, technology, science, systems elude me. But when it comes...

When I was a kid, my heroes were Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Superman, Mighty Mouse. They were the good guys in movies, cartoons,...