The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...