Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
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,
Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
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…
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
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,
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call