They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem
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…
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...