When, after a hushed conference, the dentist’s receptionist gave me an aspirin out of her own purse and offered to drive me home, I knew things were bad. I’ll be in better hands today. Husband will escort me to the oral surgeon’s office and care for me tenderly thereafter...
All it took was a handful of cheap chow mein noodles at dinner to bring my paternal grandmother right back to me. I’ve not had those little round crunchy ones — or my Gramma — for many years. We don’t get to choose, after all. Who knows what my...
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...