Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

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

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

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…

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

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

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...