Hospital Corners

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, [...]



Happy Birthday, Grandmother

When was Hortense Rita Dowd Deane born? No one really knows for sure. Hortense was a foundling. Back in those days when a child was found and examined by a doctor, the doctor would determine an approximate age and the child would be given as birth date the closest holiday that corresponded to the determined [...]