She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.