When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
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 ...
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
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 ...
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across