Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

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…

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

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

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time