Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often