Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s