Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

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

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.