His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

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

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

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

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree