This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

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.

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

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

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s