In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

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

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney