a widow without incumbrances, i.e. without children

[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser.

And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.

Sit in a chair looking south into blue twilight that arrives earlier every day— as the sky flakes and densens, as the first clear flakes float past the porch's wood to light on dirt of the driveway and on brown frozen grass or dry stalks of the flower border.