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When Hair Care is a Family Affair
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown It’s hard to understand why none of us—not my brother, dad, or I—can remember her name. She was part of our family for probably a...
The History of My Hair-Raising
If “Jesus loved the little children” so darn much, as the old hymn proclaims, why did He make little girls curl their hair for Sunday School? “Suffer the little children . . .” And suffer we did. Every Saturday, my mother would set my hair with...
A Fine Day to Die
It was a beautiful day outside, but my friend Teri and I sat in recliners in her basement, checking our emails and binge watching Botched, and A & E reality show about plastic surgery gone horribly wrong. After about three hours, I said, “Teri, they say we...
10 Reasons Why You Should Rent an Apartment Instead of Buying a House or a Condo
You have two Rottweilers, you raise bees for the honey you sell, and you are planning on installing a trapeze in your bedroom. I get it. You want to own your property. You are filthy rich, so rich that you pay absolutely no income taxes. You want to buy a...
10 Things I Learned While Cleaning Out My Parents’ House
(Dumpster help link!) I pried open the overstuffed file cabinet and found, amid tax returns from the twentieth century, a hanging file marked “Birth Certificates.” And there they were, the birth certificates for Ray Fred and Debi Briana. My mother’s...
Downsizing: We sold our house and everything in it
We sold our house and almost everything in it. Downsizing was fun!
The Club: Motherless Daughters
This piece is in memory of my mother, who died three years ago today. Other women in The Club of Motherless Daughters have contributed their thoughts about grieving a mother’s loss.
After 55 years in the ‘burbs, we moved downtown!
Our last house in the suburbs--crazy big for two empty-nesters “A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” ~ Patrick Geddess "What is the city but the people?" ~ William Shakespeare "Sing the Queen City. Say home." From "Seven Hills and a...
When Dinner is Performance Art . . . and Requires a Hat
“Oh, and you have to wear a hat,” Pann Webb said after I accepted her invitation to the Webb New Year’s Eve Dinner Extravaganza. I am not a party girl, and I had only accepted after she assured me that I didn’t absolutely have to stay up until midnight. Then...
A Christmas Story Made in America
Really, it was just three sentences posted on FB at 8:10 this past Monday night: Dear Friends, I know a woman who has had to set up housekeeping in a new home for her and her children. She hasn't a single stick of furniture--not even beds for her kids--and a...
12 Things I’ve Learned as a 65-Year Christmas Survivor
1. Go easy on the egg nog. Is there anything less fun than being sober in a group of drunks? And here’s the thing: drunks never believe they’re drunk. They think they’re witty and clever and maybe a bit sexy. They’re not. They wreak havoc and hurt feelings...
A Horse is Not a Dog
What must it be like to be them? The...
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