The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

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