Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
