When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

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...

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

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...

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t