A deluge of fourth-grade tears rolled with the ease of boulders cascading down a mudslide stricken slope – powerful, even deadly, if you knew what was to come. Even the kids in class who refused to cry, and they’re always a few of them, sat frozen in their seats either vowing revenge or simply panic-stricken […]
Soaring high above Scranton, Air Force One carrying President Joe Biden looked like a flying piss ant in the sky. Look at the picture of the plane I took Wednesday. Think for a moment about the infestation of publicly funded White House staffers about to land and tell me you don’t feel like bugs are […]
Facing what remained of a chafed and grizzled newsroom staff, publisher and editor Ace King stood with hands on hips, a red and black silk club tie neatly knotted around his neck. Starched monogrammed French cuffs on a white shirt protruded about a half inch from the sleeves of an Italian black double-breasted suit with […]
By the end of September only a few leaves on the mountain trees had changed. Deep orange, red and yellow hues excited Buck each year the seasons turned. You could count on the plentiful harvest colors appearing as sure as shooting. But the long walks in the woods with Petey were over. Crows still cried […]
Blanche lost her husband Skinner to the war, once telling a perfect stranger while picking through carrots and celery in the produce aisle at the supermarket that her husband didn’t die in vain. “No, he did not, dear,” the older woman said, leaning in for a hug. “He lived in vain,” Blanche said. Then she […]
