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

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

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

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…