It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives