Month: September 2011
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House husband to the rescue
No complaints this week that there’s “nothing to do” in El Dorado. Not this week anyway. Not with both the Union County Fair and the Rhea Lana Consignment sale at the Conference Center both happening the same week. Last winter I promised my daughter I would take her children’s out-grown clothes to the next Rhea…
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It just depends … sometimes
Culturally, the proverb “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” has always been true. The concept, however, is not valid for moral behavior. During her summer in Haiti, my college friend made many friends. One day as she chatted with the Haitian teens, they asked to fix her straight, loose hair. She sat still…
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Grommet home work
Work provides cash for paying bills, keeps idle hands busy and inspires us to develop more efficient ways to do its tasks. Or, as Thomas A. Edison once observed, work is an opportunity dressed in overalls. It was the monotony and tediousness of the task that sent a million tiny grommets out of the factory…
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Resigning as head (leg) nurse
As child, I said I wanted to be a nurse. As a high school senior, I applied for college thinking pre-med. As a college freshmen I encountered chemistry and re-considered. As a mother and wife, I happily settled for letting my husband dispense the medicine, diagnose the illnesses and decide who needed to go to…