Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it
