It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans