Larry Abbott, 75, a widower and retired English teacher, takes a two-week tour of Italy and Sicily in the spring of 2002, hoping to visit his mother's grave in Palermo after two earlier attempts since 1990 failed.
Larry Abbott, 75, a widower and retired English teacher, takes a two-week tour of Italy and Sicily in the spring of 2002, hoping to visit his mother's...
At a piano recital, Roger Lewis, a widower and retired English teacher, meets Monica Appelbaum, who graduated from high school with him in 1942 and Louis Ornstein, whom Roger has known since they started college. During Roger's ride home with Monica to the northern suburbs, she has a vertigo attack. Roger is able to help her and in gratitude, Monica calls Roger and begins a phone friendship.
While performing volunteer duties at a Hospital Roger meets Mary Davis, a widow in her 70s. After her discharge, Mary invites Roger to dinner, and they begin a friendship. At a second recital by a...
At a piano recital, Roger Lewis, a widower and retired English teacher, meets Monica Appelbaum, who graduated from high school with him in 1942 and Lo...
For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland from his four children. He joins 24 others, a newlywed couple from Maine, a young man whose presence is connected to a bet, four retired women in their early 60s from Minneapolis (three widows and one never married), three widows in their early 70s from Florida (originally teachers in New York), and seven married couples in their 50s, 60s, and 70s.
The tour director is a handsome blonde ski instructor and...
For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Den...
Events that take place between Thanksgiving Day 2004 and New Year's Day 2005 to Brent Franklin, 78, alternate with events that take place on a two-week escorted tour of Turkey in 1997.
Events that take place between Thanksgiving Day 2004 and New Year's Day 2005 to Brent Franklin, 78, alternate with events that take place on a two-wee...
For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland from his four children. He joins 24 others, a newlywed couple from Maine, a young man whose presence is connected to a bet, four retired women in their early 60s from Minneapolis (three widows and one never married), three widows in their early 70s from Florida (originally teachers in New York), and seven married couples in their 50s, 60s, and 70s.
The tour director is a handsome blonde ski instructor and...
For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Den...
The first letter received by the author, dated September 9, 1988, is from a former student from 1977 who sends happy-birthday wishes, and condolences for a double tragedy.
The last 2 letters are both written Easter Sunday 2010: one, by the author to his friend Rudy. They met in first grade in September 1932; their friendship has lasted 78 years.
The other letter is from the youngest of the author's 4 children, his son Matt, who was born in 1959 after 3 daughters.
Matt also has 3 daughters, and in his letter conveys unexpected but good news from Austin, Texas.
Before the author...
The first letter received by the author, dated September 9, 1988, is from a former student from 1977 who sends happy-birthday wishes, and condolenc...
The author, 83 and a widower, drives from a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. to take his oldest daughter Jane to a lunch for Mother's Day 2010. Her two grown children live in other states. Jane, 61, is a recent grandmother. The author is a recent great-grandfather.
A former teacher of high school English, the author retired in 1991 and for about 10 years traveled extensively throughout Europe but now tutors 8 adults, 6 Korean women and 2 African-Americans, for the Abington Library adult literacy program.
Each of his 8 students gets an individual one-hour session one day a week....
The author, 83 and a widower, drives from a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. to take his oldest daughter Jane to a lunch for Mother's Day 2010....
