Little White Cabin

There's a family gathering out in Houston this evening to remember and celebrate the life of a man I knew well. He was my first cousin. ...

From the family collection: Tommy, Chris, Chuck, and Burt. I'm guessing 1950. Kimball, in western Nebraska. Strong, tough young men...

I know of a man in Alabama, late 50s, who committed suicide recently. I didn't know him well, personally, just through the financial...

In the early 1950's a young woman from a poor family in western Nebraska joined the Navy to escape a short, abusive marriage. Her older...

Rest in peace, cuz. Thanks to God you found such a beautiful love before you left us. Tom Waits wrote a song for you. It says: In the...

He lies inert, unaware on his hospital bed, a victim of violence at the hands of someone close to him. That relationship, and the...

What people once ascribed to demonic possession now gets tagged as schizophrenia (or some variant). We may go from prayerful...

A crucial motif in the novel Rufus is the sound of a baby crying. The boogeyman snatches up the child in his sack and totes her off into...

In the summer of '98 my family took a trip to NYC. I took this pic of my daughters. I remember.