The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

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

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.