Bob Boger owned the corner rowhouse on my block. I learned a lot from him over the course of our lives, beginning with the admonition, "Stay off my grass!" As the years passed, the subjects of our dealings became more complex.
Years earlier, the Boger & Crawford textile company sponsored a church CYO baseball team. In one not-to-be-forgotten game, Babe Ruth played first base for the parish team.
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
Inside the Methadone Clinic. Addiction to heroin, methadone, and other opiates. Destruction. The primal addiction" of the child, power and control over your own life, the institutions and the characters, the love between a mother and son. This book i
