As I loaded dishes into the dishwasher, I sang along with the radio. My grandson looked up from the picture he was coloring and said, "Grandma, there's one thing about you that I don't like." Anticipating what he was going to say, I asked, "What? That I sing all the...
My sister, Mrs. Clean, bleaches her ceiling, vacuums the driveway, and irons socks. Her house looks like a magazine cover. Mine looks like the county dump. Her floors are so clean you could eat off them. You can eat off mine too . . . If you’re a dog.I can relate to...
I have an acquaintance who won big on the slot machines in Las Vegas. I wouldn't mind having money spill out of a machine into my pockets, but that's not likely to happen since I don't gamble. However, I am rich because I possess a treasure greater than money. It...
Due to complications of an illness, without warning I’d been struck blind. As I lay awake in the lonely darkness, I prayed harder than I’d ever prayed before. I was living a nightmare. I felt alone and afraid.The searing pain stabbed at my eyes as if fire were...
When my father was diagnosed with cancer, he moved in with my youngest brother.Knowing my father didn't have much time left, my brother invited me and our other siblings to stay with him. This allowed each of us to spend as much time as possible with my father, as...
My grandson was here for five days, and I lived to tell about it. The husband and I spent much of that time trying to impress upon Cobi that a diet of just pickles and olives is not balanced or healthy. Yesterday, he had three huge pickles for lunch . . . And that was...
Two kids were talking one day. Marvin said, "That new kid in school is nothing but a big fathead!"Matilda, in her refined way, softly said, "You shouldn’t call people names like that. It’s rude. I never call people names."Marvin shrugged and told her, "Well, I just...
