White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
