They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

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

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

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

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in