A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,