He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
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
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
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…
There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in