The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
