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...

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.