After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
