As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

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…

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

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