Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
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...
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…