He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

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.

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

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

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

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

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

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 ...

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out