Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

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

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening