Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone