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Published: March 3, 2007
Houses are just houses with Mama gone home
By Richard Mize
MULDROW — The light fixture over this bed has rattled every time a train has passed, on the Union Pacific line out of Van Buren, Ark. , since the house was built in 1978.

Sometimes it rattles before I notice the train. But then I hear the rhythmic clatter of steel wheels on steel rails, the sound swimming over hills and ravines here for ages and slaloming among houses and businesses that weren't the first time I ...

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