We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

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

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

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.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…