You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

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

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

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

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…