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 ...
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
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
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat
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
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found