She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
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...
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
