It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
