The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

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

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

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

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...