Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
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...
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
