Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

“DON’T PICK YOUR NOSE!” When I was a kid, I heard this all the time.  I heard it from my parents and the nuns and my friends.  I heard it in...

My Books I saw an article recently about the ten things that guys like to collect.  It was an interesting list because – for the most part –...

 A Poem for International Holocaust Remembrance Day On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army came upon Auschwitz and its various camps and subca...

When did you start thinking about death?  Me? I’ve always been thinking about it.   When I was a kid, I loved to read novels and history ...

  DON’T! I went to St. Fidelis, a Catholic grade school in Chicago, for 8 years from 1955 to 1962.  The school was run almost exclusively by...

  Does Michelle Obama Know Poverty? I was talking to my friend David yesterday, and he said that Michelle Obama didn’t have any right to tal...

Trump Shooting and the United States of Violence Last Saturday afternoon, my wife’s mom called us up.   She’s 99 years old, and she’s lived ...