The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

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

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…