Month: June 2002

  • It’s a cat’s life

    The cats have it made: They enjoy free food with no pressure to catch rodents. They expect us to get up and let them in, out, in, out – you get the idea. The cute little calico loves to nestle around my daughter’s sleeping body at night. The calico thinks she owns this human –…

  • Role reversal

    My life is not the way that the way it used to be. It isn’t even the way I thought it should and would be. As a young bride my hardworking husband left for work in the wee hours of the morning while I slept on until I needed to wake-up and see the children…

  • Getting a perfect picture

    Wedding pictures … flaws and all, I am officially, old-fashioned and completely out of step with the times – and see no reason to get in step. A recent letter to Dear Abby from a professional wedding coordinator described two starkly different weddings she supervised inside of a month. The first came straight from a…

  • Books or burgers

    At garage sales, I look for used books: a copy of an children’s book for the grandkids, a novel I might read, or an old book reflecting an earlier era. The corners of our re-modeled the home are filled with shelves of books. Even in the laundry room I am surrounded by three overflowing book…