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by Peter Derk Last spring at work, someone came into my office and said, “There's an old man with a cane here to see you.”             ...

by Wilmer Frey 1. I wish I could say straightaway that my mother was an original, that she had remarkable insight into the issues of her day...

by Mark Hummel He was a teacher.   I knew him, as so often we know our teachers, only in that context.   I knew nothing of him beyond the ...

by Mark Hummel Despite merciless insistence on conformity from his paintings, an insistence that often results in the sound of a knife on wh...

by Mark Hummel At eighty four and eighty five, as their bodies begin to betray them, they lean more heavily on one another.   Walking has g...