When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old