I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture