It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

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

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…

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

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen