Chicago, New York, and More
I was fascinated by the size of and the contrast between New York and Chicago. Both cities had large ethnic populations whose arrival in the…
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28 published stories
Near The Edge of The End
I’m sitting at the counter in the “Good Food Café” down on Franklin Street having a cup of coffee. Besides good food, the “Good Food”…
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Touchdown Jesus and Sister Joe
Ella was the last child born into a poor, dirt-farming family. They lived near Vinita, Oklahoma at the beginning of the twentieth century. Twelve children were…
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Sunday in Green Bay
When I owned a construction company in the Chicago suburbs some years ago, I made frequent trips to the Hines Lumber Yard in Downers Grove.…
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Hot Sauce
It was one of those “low ball” nights, quiet, nothing going on, wife at yoga, boring cable news, had to fend for myself. On those…
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Ron, The Hot Dog Man
Ron probably smiled a little more than you or me; probably trusted fate a little more than we do. Ron wasn’t even sure how he…
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Backyard Football
We lived out from town about two miles from the city limits of Baton Rouge on Perkins Road. Perkins was a two lane parish road…
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Simmesport
A lot of good people live along the Atchafalaya. All kinds of people, too. There are white folk, Cajun, Creole, Coonass, and about as many…
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Ol’ John
On this partic’lar grey day I went to visit John. They got him buried in the old cemetery, the one out south of town. The…
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The Park Bench
In a hurry and slightly harried, taking a shortcut across a park to meet up with a friend and take a cab to LaGuardia I…
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