by Sandy Lingo | Jun 29, 2016 |
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 horrible brush...
by Sandy Lingo | Jun 22, 2016 |
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 should...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 30, 2016 |
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 house...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 22, 2016 |
(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 Cabbage...
by Sandy Lingo | Feb 16, 2016 |
“Why the obsession with worldly possessions? When it’s your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light.” ~ Alex Morritt “Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry than it brings you hours of enjoyment is a candidate for...