Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

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.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

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

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…