Spitball Army

Dimes go in a sweetgrass basket; nickels in a glass jar. Now and then, there’s a nice meal out. Meanwhile, it’s noodles and Jell-O.

[Read more →]

All day to-day, Sunday, we have seen Minn., N.D., and Canadian wheat fields flat as a table.

[Read more →]

30 years on, he disappointingly says to me: I was sure you’d’ve made at least a million by now. But I’d never told him I hadn’t.

[Read more →]

Card is titled: “Majestic Hotel and Bath House, Hot Springs, Arkansas.”

[Read more →]

Approximate playing time: 79 minutes.

[Read more →]

The Milwaukee Road’s Hiawathas cruise easily at 100 m.p.h. and are capable of more than two miles per minute, but speed is not all.

[Read more →]

Retired, she now works afternoons at a hardware store, wheelchair-bound behind a register, emergency pennies tucked in her vest.

[Read more →]

For some, a job is a stage for creating melodramas that make their home lives seem palatable. For the rest of us, it’s a living.

[Read more →]

I don’t think there would be any use going out your way as there isn’t any special attraction out there for me, not since all your time has been taken up by that new Gentleman who comes around your house every day.

[Read more →]

Seen in Moody, Alabama, next to the Food Giant.

[Read more →]