Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought