Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

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...

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

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