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She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.