The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
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...
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
