When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

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

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

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

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm