White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb