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 ...
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 ...
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.