No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

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

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.