The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
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
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
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 ...
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
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
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
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
