White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

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

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

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 ...

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running