Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

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

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.