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...
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner