Strangers at the Senior Center

Who are these characters, and what’s their story?

Who is this woman and what is she thinking? Photo by Mary McGrath

When I lived in Los Angeles, I volunteered for seventeen years at our local senior center. I met a myriad of people there, and over the years, I got to know many of them fairly well. In their faces, I saw a wealth of experience. I heard about marriages, divorces, deaths, careers, heartache, health challenges and everything in…