He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

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

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.