In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

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

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan