Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

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

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

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

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up