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

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

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...

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind