It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever