It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
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.
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make