Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

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,

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies