The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

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

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...