Cold as Ice

Cold as Ice

The woman pinned my mother and me outside a Florida grocery store and began to talk. She told us all about the three children she'd fostered to adopt, the husband who was 10 years her senior, and every medical diagnosis each one had ever had. The one-sided conversation with this person we never met before [...]

A chipper goodbye

A chipper goodbye

I hosted a goodbye party for February yesterday, but don't feel bad that you weren't invited. I kept the guest list pretty small --just me, the shortest month, a couple of shovels and about a million yards of the thickest non-rink ice I've ever seen. I really should have invited Mr. Zamboni. He would have [...]