Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring