When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

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

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,