So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

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,

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear