wRiting and wAiting
Writing and waiting are spelled differently by only one letter, which I didn’t notice until the day I sloppily wrote “writing” in all caps on a wrinkled piece of paper. When I glanced back at the note, the R looked like an A. Interesting, huh? Maybe the better question if you’re a writer is “Frustrating,...
My Rainy Day Pinocchio (my lying husband and self-acceptance)
If my husband’s nose ever grows, it’ll be on a rainy day. And I’m not even sure why he lies, but he does. Sure as it was raining outside, he sat on our couch and said, “I really don’t mind the rain. I mean, I kind of like it. Except when it’s cold or really wet.” Truth is, he hates when it rains unless it’s National Nap Day. On the other hand,...
Devil Dog Bad, chocolate-eating gone bad
In our grocer’s bakery section, displayed in a glass along with other sweets, is the coast’s version of a Covered Wagon, a chocolate dessert only available, as far as we know, at McFarlan’s Bake Shop in Hendersonville, N.C. The local knockoff is a close second to the original, and for sale close to home, which makes it almost as...
Play on Saturday
Play on Saturday with Jeanie. It was an odd entry on my to-do list. The list that runs down the length of my desk. Onto the floor. Curls past my office door and into the hallway. It’s long. Just then, while thinking about the length of my list, I remembered that Jeanie and I planned to attend a play at the community theater on Saturday...
Sorry, I Google
I’ve spent a lot of time googling, even though when I started, it wasn’t a verb. And now, after all this time, the word continues to be a controversial one. I’m typically a conformist when I think I might be judged, but not this time. In my defense, I tried. “I went to Google to look it up” sounds okay, but I’m not sure...
Harmonic Balancer, there are birds under the hood of my car
The conversation went something like this … Me: If it sounds like birds under my hood, what could it be? Spouse: I don’t know. Me: So, is it okay to drive it? Spouse: Probably. Me: There wouldn’t really be birds under there. I’d hate to…well, you know. Spouse: No, it’s not birds. I pulled over and popped my hood. No birds, no nest, not...
Terms of Endearment, dogs have a way about them
If there’s such a thing as a furry soul mate, Savannah is mine. She’s a mixed black lab with pretty mismatched eyes, and she belongs to our daughter and her fiancé. At first I missed this whole bonding thing we had going on. In fact, Savannah aggravated me a lot of the time. She wants to be around people. All the time. She wants...
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