Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

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 ...