I was making the bed in the guest room yesterday in anticipation of my upcoming weekend house guests when my thoughts turned to the task at hand — yes, bed making and “hospital corners.” I was remembering when I was a little girl and my Mother teaching me how to tuck in the bottom first, [...]
When I was in the fourth grade my brother Kenny was born. Our Mother had been ill during this pregnancy, it was a difficult one and both of them almost didn’t make it. We lived in a very small two-bedroom house — my older brother John and my younger brother Brent shared a bedroom, my Mother and [...]
How do these things begin? This time it was with an e-mail to my husband. We were sitting in our usual places — he on his big overstuffed leather recliner/rocker, in which he never reclines, with his laptop on his lap and I on my big overstuffed lazy-boy recliner sofa with MY laptop on my [...]