Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...