Month: February 1994

When he was little, my husband was his barber. Every sprig on request, my father gave my son a butch hair cut. Then he became a teenager and he didn’t like his dad’s haircuts. When he tried cutting it himself, he ended up with a baseball cap haircut. We made an early-morning trip to a…

One tree to many snapped, cracked and plopped over the electric lines. We used up the propane making popcorn and nobly decided to eat the ice cream before it melted. A game of Risk by candlelight left half a dozen pools of hardened wax on the oak table. As we started to pile on the…

Our cat went strolling in front of the neighbor’s dog. The dog went into red alert and attacked. With a loud yowl, our mixed breed of charcoal striped and calico patches leaped into the nearest pine tree. With its tail at full mast, the cat turned to hiss her rage at being scared half out…