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 ...
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
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
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
