Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

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…

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...