On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem
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,
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
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.
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
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
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.