Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
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’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
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
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...