I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

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,

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him