In 1989 Bill Butler and his wife Simonne closed down their export business in Miami to fulfill a…
“I’ve never seen cold weather last so long!” Mom said when I arrived at the family ranch near…
Hearing aids cost thousands, but they sure are tiny. I didn’t even realize mine was missing until a…
My room at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, was crowded. I gazed at the faces of our pastor,…
I awoke thinking that I was at my parents’ house. I could almost smell Mom’s potato pancakes in…
Once, when I was a boy, I saw a dollar Ingersoll watch in the showcase of our local…
Recently a friend came to me in an hour of deep need. She was earnestly seeking something, anything…
As I hung up the phone on our kitchen all, I turned to see my wife Georgiana’s smiling…
For twelve days I sat in a hospital where someone very dear to me hovered between life and…
Some boys grow up resenting an outstanding older brother. That isn’t the way it was in my family.…
I wanted the job more than anything in my life. I was a veteran, a grown man, ready…
In the summer of 1976 I flew out to the Philippines to begin work on a film that,…
