America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
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 ...
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
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
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
