I don’t feel safe any more.” That puzzled Codger at the time. After all, wasn’t this still America with its checks and balances, due process, free speech. Even more comforting, they were living on ...

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A creaky train wreck of a man, the Cloaked Codger of Whiskey Ditch had long ago lived his prime life. By the early 1930s, having been reduced to a mere shell of a being, this gasping, grimy, wretch of ...

An inquiry came recently to hand from a gentleman somewhere in Cyberspace. He asked, "What is the difference between a codger, a geezer and a coot?" This is the kind of question that keeps a writer ...

As I am quickly approaching my 75th year, I had to chuckle at Danny Heitman’s definition of a “codger” (“Envy the Old Codger,” op-ed, June 6). I wander in public wearing clothing that my wife frowns ...

What are the origins of the terms "codger" and "whippersnapper"? Is there such a thing as a young codger or an old whippersnapper? Whippersnapper is easy. Codger is a bit more complicated. Some people ...

Three “old codgers” with Santa Fe connections have launched a weekly podcast they are calling Camp Codger. Santa Fe retiree Gary Ebersole dreamed up the podcast idea, and Richard Kipling, who has a ...

Regarding Lance Morrow’s “OK Boomer? Bernie, Biden and Bloomberg Are Older Still” (op-ed, Feb. 27): I think the proposed publication would be better called “Codger and Crone,” but either way, I’ll ...