The Humor Side

I was seventy-three, dying in a hospice bed with stage-four lung cancer, and the three children I’d sacrificed my entire

When I moved in with my son Andrew and his pregnant wife Kate, I pretended it was because of my

At first glance, it’s just a woman framed by tropical greenery, sunlight soft on her face, her smile unguarded, her

If you’re 70 or older and drive, you’ve likely enjoyed a certain flexibility when renewing your driver’s licence or getting

When my sister-in-law Clara called that afternoon, her voice was all sunshine and charm. “Grace, could you feed Buddy for

A man returns home early from work one afternoon to find his wife spread out on the bed, puffing and

Hospitals have a way of erasing time—white walls, soft beeps, the sterile scent of endings. For one mother, those walls

I grew up very poor. When I was thirteen, I was invited to a classmate’s house and ended up staying

A husband and wife were standing at the bus stop with their nine children, waiting impatiently after a long, tiring

In a cozy mobile home park in sunny Florida, there lived an elderly widower and a widow who had known