Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little