Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
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...