But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
At school we practiced for the Christmas program all month long. Miss Butler couldn't sing either, but she was a feisty director. . . . She took the Christmas program personally, as teachers do.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
And don’t look for anything out of the law around here, she said. The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It’s every man for hisself.But as the saying goes, if y...
And I'll tell you something else for free. If you set a foot over that doorsill, I'll wring your red neck.
A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.
We had to scramble for seats in the day coach, lugging one straw valise between us and a gallon jug of lemonade. And a thermos bottle of the kind the Spanish-American War soldiers carried, with our ow...
September 11We thought we'd outdistanced historyTold our children it was nowhere near;Even when history struck Columbine,It didn't happen here.We took down the maps in the classroom,And when they were...
Blue lightning flashed in the kitchen, and for a split second you could see every calendar on the wall in there. Than an almighty explosion like the crack of doom. She'd rolled a cherry bomb across th...
At last she said, Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a...
They'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.