It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,