For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having
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,
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…