When the University of Kentucky mens basketball team rose to prominence in the nineteen-forties and fifties, the state itself was known for many things, most of them not good. We were often ranked in the bottom three states when it came to education and per capita income. We were always near the top in "consumption" …
One Derby day I found myself working for Pony Express Pizza. It was late in the evening and I delivered around $52 dollars in pizza to a house in Fox Harbor. When I get to the house, a couple greeted me at the door and the husband was drunk off his ^#$. He handed …
She turned off the TV. She just walked over and punched the power button. I stood there stunned. The year was 1980 and I was in north eastern Ohio, standing in the family room of my date's home, getting ready for a junior prom dance. Sharon and I met several weeks before, when she visited …
Tony Acree 