Category: Growing Older

I’d been called for jury duty, it was hurry up and wait; While they tried to pick the twelve who’d decide some poor guy’s fate. We all compared our numbers as we stood there in the hall, Each one of us in secret hoped we wouldn’t get the call. I had spent my boyhood here, […]

The deal was that they make no sound, If so, their plane ride would be free. It was an open-air bi-wing, The old plane had no canopy Today was dear old Bea’s birthday And she had never flown before, I’d promised her an airplane ride Back when she was 74. The pilot was a raucous […]

This morning the toilet stopped up, I hurriedly plunged out the clogs. My wife called out from the kitchen, “It’s going to rain cats and dogs!” So I got out my umbrella, Put the plunger under the sink. I had no time for my breakfast And I didn’t take time to think. While waiting down […]

When you get old you lose a lot, Your glasses are the first to go. Then, of course, without your glasses The things you lose begin to grow. Today I lost my breakfast tray With ham and eggs and jellied toast. But of all the things I have lost I think I miss my mind […]

Grandma drives like lightning, It makes us ill at ease. It’s not that Grandma drives so fast She just hits lots of trees.