We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.