Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

“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 ...

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

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

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband