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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...
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
