When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

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

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

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

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

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

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back