He is hale and hearty and rather full of himself, this guy from the city introducing the show. Wearing a trendy suit meant for a man ten years younger, he’s shaved his head to pretend he doesn’t care about going bald. He is taking credit for the musical we...
My mother baked bread right before the open house. She wanted the homestead to smell warm and inviting to prospective buyers. I don’t begrudge those guilders the house as much as I do all the time and effort she put into making that bread. After all, once you sell...
Mimicry is not the highest form of flattery, despite what mother told me. Imagine my delight at discovering, when trying to open a new Mirth gmail account, that several variations of my website’s name were already taken! Years ago, when I registered the domain name, I spent endless hours...
Husband sometimes gently suggests that Mirth is not as mirthful as it might be. When this happens, I go through my library of Pointed Looks and select an especially suitable one to spear him with. I suggest that marriage has not proved as mirthful as it might be, either....
What kind of petition-pusher trudges through a thick snowstorm on a dreary night in February, fighting the icy wind to knock on door after door in the freezing dark? Even the ever-loyal mailman won’t go to that extreme. In the current political maelstrom, I can’t say I blame him....