Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

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

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

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

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

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

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make