The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
“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 ...
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
