Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field