When I was growing up, we were always late. We were late to church almost every Sunday, including on my Confirmation, when I ran in through the double doors just as my fellow confirmands were proceeding up the center aisle. Pastor Kridler grabbed me by the arm, threw a cross necklace around my neck and […]
Gail
White Trash
I was walking my dog yesterday, early morning, and it was trash day, so we were dodging the garbage and recycling cans at the curb, which were covering up extremely valuable dog pee smells. People are so rude, to put their trash cans over top of urine-soaked grass. But they do. Even on my […]
Breakfast of Champions
I’m having company for New Year’s (please pray for me, that I’ll be able to stay awake until at least 12:15 a.m. Jan. 1 – it could be embarrassing to fall asleep watching an ancient, post-stroke Dick Clark radiating vim and vigor on live TV, putting me to shame). My friend Janet and her husband […]