A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...