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

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

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

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

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

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

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

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...