Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it