A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said