Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

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 ...

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

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

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

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

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

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