You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

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

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out