The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
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...
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make