Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
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.
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
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
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney