Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

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...

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…