In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

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...

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

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…

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.