He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

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,

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

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...

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.