He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull