All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
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...
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up