Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

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

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

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

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing