After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
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.
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
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...
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
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