Let me tell you something. Thirty years I have run a tow yard here off Linden Ave in Zanesville, and somewhere in there I quit feeling anything about the cars. …

Thirty years in a Zanesville tow yard and I quit feeling anything about the cars — the one that sat ninety days made me put the spare back and wash my clean hands Read More

Miss Ada across the way baked the best apple pie in the county for forty years, and she must have given away a thousand of them, to funerals, to new …

Miss Ada baked the best apple pie in the county for forty years — the spring the pies stopped and her son moved in, I finally tapped on her window Read More

Bought an old aluminum fishing boat off a fella who was moving out of the area, fourteen-footer, old Mercury on the back, perfect for chasing walleye around the lake on …

I bought an old fishing boat off a fella in a hurry to be gone — the false bottom in the storage box made me set the crowbar down Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Pickens came in for breakfast every Sunday after church for going on fifteen years. Same order every time, he would pull her chair out for her, they …

The Pickens came in for breakfast every Sunday for fifteen years — the Sunday their daughter left the table, Mrs. Pickens whispered the truth Read More

Bought Clarence old Ford at the estate sale, the same pickup he had driven up into the mountains after elk for twenty years. Clarence passed in the fall, alone, no …

I bought Clarences old elk-hunting Ford at his estate sale — the bundle under the back seat told me the quiet man was never alone at all Read More

I drive seniors to their dialysis and back, the same eight faces three times a week, and I know every one of them like my own kin by now. Mrs. …

I drive seniors to dialysis three times a week — the day Mrs. Hatter showed me her wrist, I knew I could not just drop her off Read More

Ever since I retired, I have had a foolish little habit, bidding on old bank safe deposit boxes at auction. The ones folks quit paying on ages ago and never …

I bid on abandoned safe deposit boxes at auction — the one wrapped in a handkerchief told me why that man locked it and never came back Read More

I have pastored our little church here in Ashtabula for twenty-six years, and I know every one of my Sunday school children by name and by heart. Little Rebecca used …

I have pastored our little church in Ashtabula twenty-six years — the Sunday school girl who would not leave finally told me why Read More

That couch came with the house. We bought this place here in Owensboro off an old widower about ten years back, and he left half his furniture behind, said he …

That ugly brown couch came with the house and I hauled it to the dump ten years later — what the worker found inside changed how I treat my own wife Read More

I buy abandoned storage units at auction and flip whatever is inside. Saw it on one of those TV shows and figured I would try it, and now it has …

I buy abandoned storage units and flip whats inside — the welded box behind an old Coca-Cola cooler sat me right down on the couch Read More