They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.