After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

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