A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house