He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts