Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

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

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.