Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

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

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps