Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

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

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around