He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

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,

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.