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

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

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

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

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

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,