Then I became a writer
It seems now, looking back, that I sleep-walked through much of my time at St. Thomas Aquinas Grade School in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s Far West Side. I know [...]
The lowly alley — shaper of Chicago
All, hail the lowly alley! Shaper of Chicago, home of garbage and gardens, danger and Dumpsters, the arena of kickball, hoops and gossip, of scavengers and shortcuts, of neighbors and [...]
How does God speak to us?
At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before [...]
The joy of being out of contact
I was in a hurry. My wife and I were leaving for a vacation in Paris the next day. So I didn't give much thought to the canned email response [...]