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

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

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

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

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

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about