Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

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

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.