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
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
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
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...