The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,