She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.