Today is my mother’s eighty-fifth birthday and we will celebrate with coconut shrimp, whipped mashed potatoes, chocolate ice cream and Chardonnay. She’ll get phone calls and birthday cards and flowers from friends and family. She’ll feel loved and appreciated. And tomorrow she won’t remember any of it. Dementia does that. It’s indiscriminate about what memories […]
A few months back I bought this cute, little citrus juicer. It’s purpose is to not only extract the juice from the fruit, but also provide a way of storing the extra juice. I don’t know about you but if I’m going to go through all of the effort of squeezing a bunch of limes […]
I have a pet peeve. I think it started sometime in my twenties when my then brother-in-law was spending the summer with us. He was just a teenager and sloppy, as I imagine most teenage boys are. Not having any kids of my own yet, I wasn’t used to having to clean up someone else’s […]
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