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...
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...
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
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
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...