More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
