When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.