Those grown girls, my daughter and daughter-in-law, were chatting with me after our weekly Sunday lunch. The conversation turned to housekeeping, and I found out both of them watch YouTube videos of women cleaning–for fun. They watch them for fun. “It’s just so relaxing,” Jayme said. Mallory agreed. So there I was, a 53-year-old woman,…
She told me she watched a spotter plane fly around behind her house for a long time. Then came the helicopters, with water bags hanging heavy and low. They dropped bag after bag of water on a fire that had re-ignited in an old burn pile. It’s been a summer of high temperatures and no…
Hey guys, I was really something the other night at a wedding shower. The bride was opening her lovely gifts, and one present was a muffin pan. “You know,” I told the bride, “I use a muffin pan to cook meatloaf, because it takes half the cooking time.” Instant fame. Apparently that was the best…
Our dear friends stopped in for an unexpected visit a few days ago. As my friend left, she sighed, “Your place is so tidy. I just want to stay and sit down.” This is the friend who has known me for more than two decades. We’ve raised our kids together. We’ve had open pantries for…
If he had been a southern man and the mother-in-law had been a Texas girl, she would have been appalled for him to see her lying there like that –with no lipstick on and hair mussed by the pillow. But he would have been a gentleman and paid no mind to her appearance. Gently taking…
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