A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

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 can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you