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,

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

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…

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband