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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.
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
