Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

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,

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

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...

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.