I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

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

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job