When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
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
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
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...
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying