After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

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 ...

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought