Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
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...
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
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.
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,