She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

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…

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

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

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

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

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people