Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

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

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad