Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

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 ...

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

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

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain