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On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Remember, a blind man can see things a sighted man can’t… So I’ll tell you about her and th… you can tell me whether I’m right. The first time a man meets her,
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example
