Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

Devil’s Food Cake and White Lies

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  Those nasty box cakes My mother had an electric mixer with a rotating bowl that blended her cakes into creamy smoothness, and she always let me lick the bowl clean. All that yummy raw batter *shudder* She had nothing but contempt for box cakes: "Mrs. So-and-So made one of those cakes from a box for the party. It tasted terrible." I asked her what terrible tasted … [Read more...]

Chalkboard Messages

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The Start Last year, as the pandemic slowed life down and caused us to physically withdraw from one another, I dragged out a cheap chalkboard I'd bought for book shows a few years ago. On it I wrote messages for my neighbors and others who walked past our house, and put it on my front porch. I hoped to create a sense of camaraderie while we hunkered down. I believe in the power of small … [Read more...]

Delivery!

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First job My husband Don laughed when I brought the Target delivery into the house this morning. "I was doing that over fifty years ago," he said. Delivering groceries, that is, from a butcher shop in Garfield Hts., Ohio. The funniest thing is that he was just fifteen years old. This was my first time getting my order brought to the doorstep. I was happy. Two hours after I placed the … [Read more...]

Is the Pandemic messing with your teeth?

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Clenching, grinding and pushing: I bet you didn't see this coming: an increase in dental injuries attributed to the pandemic. Dentists report a big uptick in patients grinding their teeth and broken or chipped teeth. Nearly 60% of Dentists say they are seeing more patients who grind their teeth, usually an indicator of stress. My friend's dentist told her, "It's all the stress with Covid-19 … [Read more...]