Thanks to the generosity of a downsizing grandma and eight amiable siblings, we packed up some solid wood memories Saturday afternoon and gratefully hauled them home. If furniture could talk, our new-to-us dining room table and matching breakfront would babble happily of birthday cakes and Scrabble games, champagne toasts and bratwurst picnics, Chicago pizza and [...]
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Carpet
I had long since given up on vacuum cleaners when I met Paul. More than 25 years of love-em-and-leave-em relationships left me disillusioned and destined to a life full of dust bunnies and hairballs. Bissell? Eureka? Oreck? I'd had them all. I met them under bright fluorescent lights of big box department stores, flirted a [...]
Motherhood: What a long, strange trip it’s been
I tripped over a cello yesterday, landed hard on the fingerboard and picked up steam as I skidded past an ineffective rock stop. Eventually, I came to rest under our stately piano which, I imagine, sighed heavily and shook its dignified keys in dismay. We've had our piano for 20 years, and it's seen more [...]
The wisdom of teeth (or how to nurse your mother through your oral surgery)
On Friday, I packed the car full of soft food goodies and hurtled my best Florence Nightingale self down I-94 to nurse my poor daughter Katherine back to health after the extraction of her wisdom teeth. With dramatic visions of bloody gauze and bruised cheeks in my head and a cell phone with spotty GPS in [...]