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…
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
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
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city