Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
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
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said