These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
