I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...