Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

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 ...

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar