Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

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 ...

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney