I’ll Call You
“I’ll call you” is what “friends” might say right before you never hear from them again. What you may expect is that said friend will call you later the same…
Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Ten, The End
That evening Sue allows me to take her out to dinner for her upcoming birthday. We go to a Mexican restaurant. It’s practically deserted, due in part to the weather,…
Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Nine, The Rest of the Trip
On Tuesday Sue and I head to Utica because there is a place there that does wine tasting and features wine from a local winery. The entire time I lived…
Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Eight, The Rest of the Trip
The drive is uneventful otherwise. We talk some but mostly we listen to Steve’s CD’s. He has them in a metal case and he’s very good about changing them. He…
Barb’s Box of Stuff
When you’re looking at downsizing your living quarters you have to make some tough decisions about what you’ll be getting rid of. In a far back corner of my closet…
My Oldest Friend
“Write about your oldest friend.” I am interpreting this to mean someone with whom you’ve had a friendship of long duration, not someone you’re friends with who is a senior…
Days Like This
Yesterday began with my brilliant idea to teach my husband to brew coffee. I suggested it would be nice if he occasionally had coffee ready when I came downstairs in…
The Town Where I Grew Up
Describe the town where you grew up. (Another Wordpress Post-a-Week topic.) Here’s the problem I have with this topic. I didn’t grow up in any one place. Our family moved…
Defining Friendship
How do you define the word friend? Oh, I want to look this up in the dictionary, so bad, just to see what it defines as a friend. Probably says…
Girlfriends Wanted
My father always told me that at any point in your life you’d be able to count the number of true friends you had on the fingers of one hand and that you probably wouldn’t need all the fingers.