Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but