Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

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

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up