After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a