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 ...

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe