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…
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
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
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
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
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
