After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics