World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

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.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

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 ...

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...