Happy Christmas, all!
We got a handful of Christmas letters with our cards this year. I feel a pang of guilt that I didn't write a Christmas letter. I usually do. So here's mine, in which I try to … Continue reading >>
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 … Continue reading >>
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 … Continue reading >>
Not feeling it
This year my husband and I won't be hosting our annual neighborhood Christmas party, which involves weeks of decorating, planning, hand-wringing, fears that no one will actually show … Continue reading >>
When crankiness hits:
I consider myself to be a generally upbeat person, but sometimes I feel like a cranky old lady.
Today, for example. I went to Dicks Sporting Goods to buy a pair of Brooks, … Continue reading >>
One highlight of The University of Southern Maine MFA program is their annual talent show. When I was a student ten years ago, we enjoyed everything from clarinet recitals, hula hoop performances and … Continue reading >>
