We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

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

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

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…

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.