I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

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

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.