It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,