We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

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

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

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

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

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...