‘It’s gonna be hard getting a room in Vernon.” Usually upbeat, Wrong Willie sounded despondent on the other end of the phone.“What does that mean? It’s Vernon, Texas, and most
I began teaching in a large suburban school district back in the 1976-77 school year. I’d sent out resumes to a number of districts in Northeast Texas before graduation, turning
The saga of my damaged middle finger continued fourteen days after I first went to the doctor. I declined two prescriptions of narcotics at a chain drugstore outlet I’ve never
The masked physician’s assistant sat down in front of a computer on a counter by my chair. In days gone by, those counters were used to hold a variety of
The other day I told the War Department it was too hot to eat anything heavy and she laughed. “We didn’t say anything like that when we were kids.” “I’ve