“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...