When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

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

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house