The Night I Met Ruth

I met Ruth that first autumn home, at a church social I had no business being at. She was a schoolteacher, and she corrected my grammar inside the first minute…

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We Married in the Rain

We married in October of 1970 outside a small church on the east side, and it rained from the first hymn to the last photograph. Ruth's mother cried that the d…

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Ruth's Kitchen

Ruth's kitchen ran the family the way the shop never ran the town. Every recipe she made came from her mother, and she taught each one to the grandkids the sam…

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The Long Drives

After I sold the shop, Ruth and I finally took the drives we had been promising ourselves for thirty years. Maine, the Smokies, all the way out to the Badlands…

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The Porch

These days most evenings end on the porch. Ruth brings the tea, I bring whatever I have been thinking about, and we sit until the streetlights come on. My daug…

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