Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

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

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in