He hadn’t taken three sips out of his large cup of coffee when he dropped it on the floor in the emergency waiting room. The coffee saturated the carpet while his expletives filled the room. A few hours later I was escorted back, to be with my mother-in-law. She was supposed to be admitted for…
On Saturday, both my guys went to work, and I was left at home alone with a novel and a calendar that told me company would be here in two days. There were two bathrooms with garbage cans that weren’t quite tall enough for the amount of garbage they were holding. (This is a thing…
I was inspired this weekend, by a man from India who came and spoke to our church on behalf of the Pardhi people. They are the lowest people in Indian society, not even considered in the caste system and treated as subhuman. Their literacy rate is 2% (and you can imagine how that pained me.)…
On Tuesday morning I was crabby -the kind of crabby that you know is unreasonable but that rises up inside you as a great beast. I was afraid for the very safety of my guys. My son had left a mess where he had been sitting in the living room the night before, and I…
In the same day I read about corruption in Lagos, Nigeria, I handed that man of mine paper towels while he was flat on his back on my kitchen floor, trying to figure out why everything underneath my kitchen sink was wet. I tried running the water, and nothing leaked. So he left the cupboard…
My mother gave me the most lovely copy of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Hardback even, like rich people read. And I did open it and sniff the inside before I lay down on the couch next to Matthew so I could join him in reading. Just the two of us next to the…
Yesterday I cleaned the coffeemaker by running vinegar through it. Three people walked into the house several hours after the vinegar was poured down the sink. They squinched their noses, and I apologized for the smell. I don’t know if this counts as a legitimate blog post or not, but I have to state this…
Once upon a time there were three beautiful sisters… And each one had her own reason to be cynical. depressed. and self-absorbed. The firstborn sister, the bossy one, yes? Has had physical ailments for years. The middle one, who either never does wrong or never gets caught, recently said goodbye to her husband a few…
Can I just start by saying that I walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes today. Applause, everyone? I don’t know what you do to pass 30 minutes on a treadmill, but I watched a sermon, with a Spanish translator, that had been filmed at a pastor’s conference in the Dominican Republican. I mean, the…
One of the not-fun activities of the week has been tackling the paperwork. You should have seen my mom’s eyes when the mail came on Saturday and she added yet another envelope to the stack she says she has been putting off until tomorrow. So Monday morning I went with her to the VA, where…
I pulled into the place where I go to pretend I’m serving my family homemade food and fresh vegetables –thank you, Panda Express. One of the parking places had a 42-ounce soda cup sitting right in the middle of it. Who would leave that sitting there? When I came out of the restaurant I argued…
I went to the closet door and reached for a book, only to find myself flat on my back, wind knocked out of me, on the hard-packed dirt of the crawlspace. Mom was in a panic, and dad was furious at himself for leaving the crawlspace hatch open. You don’t think about the floor until…
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