It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

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 ...

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength