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Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
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
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
