It wasn’t our best day. I stuck my right eyeball with a mascara wand and blinked back a brief but violent case of pink eye for most of the morning. Then I walked to work in the rain. “Um, Laura, you have a little…,” a kind co-worker gestured toward her cheek. I checked the mirror [...]
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Good Bye Old Friend
There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend. No matter how beautiful the memories, or how long the friendship, whether the end comes swiftly or painfully slow, it is always difficult to let go. Yesterday, we paid our respects to our friend Doug. A member of General Patton's army, he was a decorated [...]
A gathering of friends
Our hosts had so much to celebrate Saturday afternoon – Labor Day, a slightly belated birthday, the end of summer, a three-day weekend, good health and happiness – that they encouraged us to embrace them all without settling on a party theme. This gave us ample opportunity to scarf down the goodies without the sometimes [...]
Happy Halloween from Molly and Me
The Great Pumpkin will rise over the decorative patch in our neighbor the Cookie Lady’s yard tonight. He will cast a glow over all the sweet little children running house to house to collect more candy than they ever will eat. He’ll give the jack o-lantern nod to his fellow pumpkins that stand sentry on [...]