If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

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.