We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

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.

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...