Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

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...

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

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

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

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