Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

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

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

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 ...

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."