Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

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

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

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

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...