It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
