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

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.