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...

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.