Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
