A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

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...

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright