NOTE: Everything in this story is fictitious except the people, the tank, the pumps, the pump procurement procedures, the army, the hydro-statics, etc. Dear Professor … Read More ›
Category: The Boxwooder
“I’ve always been able to live with what I did. How? Through that simple and widespread boon to modern mankind – schizophrenia.” – Howard W. … Read More ›
A Scattering of Sparksby Ann Vrooman The fire siren is blowing again and I know that the barber down on Lansing Street will leave a … Read More ›
Note 1. This is a work of fiction. If you think you recognize someone, repeat after me: “This is a work of fiction.” Note 2. … Read More ›
THE moment that I entered my house, my wife, who automatically opens all family mail, waved an envelope in my direction. “We’re having a reunion,” … Read More ›
QUOTE Confession of a Wine Taster makes me feel I was born 30 years too late. – Evelyn Pruitt NOTE The wine glass on the … Read More ›
NOTE At least two Boxwooder readers were at Morehead State College when I entered it in 1940. Blaine Lewis was a student, and Bill Wineland … Read More ›
“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…” – Shakespeare, Hamlet “lacta alea est.” (The die is cast.) – Julius Caesar “Fortune, not prudence, rules the … Read More ›
“DID YOU SEE that North fellow? What’d he want?” “I don’t know what he wants; he wasn’t ready to tell me. I think he’s a … Read More ›
by Martha E. Shivvers IT WAS December 8, 1941, and President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt was speaking: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a … Read More ›