In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather