If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

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

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.