Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
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 ...
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney