Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
