He mixed the Manhattans, licked the swizzle stick and nodded approvingly at his work, handed me mine and took a seat in his swivel chair at ...

By Jim Parks Mashing bullets into cartridge cases filled with just the right amount of powder, checking the overall length of the finished c...

Oh, I've seen some real pros working some hard rooms in my time. But the story about W.C. Fields working that beach - pretending to drow...

By Jim Parks Moving in a flurry of activity, getting the old couple seated, flitting about for extra napkins, a bottle of pepper sauce, more...

By Jim Parks If people wait until public health officials offer them vaccination for the dreaded H1N1 swine flu that that UN doctors have te...

By Jim Parks If one set out to make it up out of whole cloth, the story would tax even the most fertile imagination. However, any reasonable...

At the automatic teller machine, a tom cat trotted across new mown grass, up a sidewalk, tail held high in the sudden autumn breeze. I meowe...