My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

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

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."