When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,