Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

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...

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

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

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls