Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
