Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
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,
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…