Street people smell me coming from blocks away — even before I’m able to smell them. They swoop down on me like hawks on field mice, relentless and ruthless, honing in on weakness. Missionaries and evangelists single me out of the crowd with ease, delighted to tell me I’m...
This is not what Husband needs to hear at the end of a long day. But I had touched it — sticky, dark and oozing. And you wait your whole life to deliver a line like that one. But I have another opportunity to shine. We bought the can of...
I’m very proud of my ability to change a roll of toilet paper. It’s a rare talent — no one else in my house has ever been able to master it, whereas I seem to have a natural aptitude for the task. When my kids were little, the family...
No wonder the clerk at Barnes & Noble laughed. I was distracted and oblivious, too wrapped up in myself to treat her as a fellow-traveler on the same journey. I ignored her, more or less, anxious to be on my way. I wasn’t rude, but I wasn’t kind –...
It appeared as if from God, wadded up on the floor of the laundry room. Mind you, that’s also the furnace room and the water heater room and the catch-all storage/work room that my kids always referred to as MomLand. Don’t be getting ideas about some lovely Pinterest-worthy laundry...