The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s