Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

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.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go