Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…