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

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

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

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has