Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying