Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
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.
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food