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
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
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 ...
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
