Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially