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

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew