Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

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

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

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.

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

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…