Tag Archives: Published Short Stories

One taught me how to live . . . The other taught me how to die.   They’ve both been gone for nearly half a century. I was seven and ten, respectively when my paternal great grandparents died. We called them Pa and Doten, and they were center of our family’s solar system. They each left an enduring lesson that …

Professor Cavanaugh’s Best Lecture Audio of “Prof Cavanaugh” I stood in the hallway outside the Louisiana College biology department’s second floor office, waiting to see Professor Cavanaugh.  I’d been standing nervously for several minutes, my chemistry book under one arm, and a class drop sheet in the other. Professor Charles J. Cavanaugh was a Louisiana College institution.  “Prof” as he …