Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

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 ...

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

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

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more