Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

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

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.