My husband had a head of thick, curly hair.  My hair is straight as a string and thin.  I bought a home permanent to make my hair curly.  My husband knew nothing about this.  I surprised him with the whole kit on our tiny kitchen table. It was a Saturday.  He had time. He read… Continue reading Moment of Curly Hair

Christmas was a month away.  I asked my husband for shopping money. I had $100.00 on a charge card.  I cried myself to sleep that night.  I loved Christmas.  I tried shopping for gifts for our parents.  It was futile.  I went to a fabric store and there were sewing patterns there for Christmas.  I… Continue reading Manger Catastrophe

I wanted to be a ballerina, but my sense of direction caused me to go left when all the other dancers went right.  Art classes came next.  I can draw with pencils, pen and ink, and crayons.  I can use a watercolor wash to spice up my line drawings.  But, finally I landed on writing… Continue reading Rejection Slips

My dad was an assistant principal at a junior high off Eight Mile in Warren, Michigan.  He was not a morning person.  My mother made him hot cereal with milk, stirred it, and added juice and a cup of coffee so strong that a spoon would stand up in it.  He dressed in a suit… Continue reading Sex Ed.

Everyone runs into days from hell.  I have not written in the past two weeks.  Everything went wrong, including my not writing.  Our daughter was t-boned and though not hurt, the car was totaled.  She lives with her fiance in Calgary, Alberta Canada.  We live in the Detroit Metro area. Our son had to find… Continue reading Two Weeks

Sometimes I would take the kids on a walk to a nearby park.  There were lovely bike paths down tree lined avenues.  I was pushing two in a stroller, and the other two ran ahead of me.  The older kids found a nestling robin.  It had baby feathers on it, but could not fly.  I… Continue reading Robin Rescue

Now that my husband is retired, we have thermostat wars.  The thermostat is in the narrow hallway leading to the bathroom and bedrooms.  We are watchful when either of us is in that hallway.  He turns it up, so it went to 79 degrees yesterday.  I turned it down and frost formed on the inside… Continue reading Thermostat Wars

We lived in Holland, Michigan for eleven years.  Tulip time is a big event there.  We have four kids, and they were little.  On the day when we all dress up for the scrubbing of the streets parade I had myself to dress, my husband, too.  Then, I had to wash, dry, iron, starch, and… Continue reading Golf Clubbed

I do my hair, such as it is, whenever we are going somewhere.  I take a shower and shampoo it, condition it, comb it out, and dry it.  Then I use an iron to make my straight as a string hair straighter. My husband has wash and dry hair.  Once in the car on our… Continue reading Hair Undone

My husband and I were at an outdoor barbecue to celebrate the end of the school year.  My husband’s phone rang.  It was a clerk at the emergency room asking for me.  My mother was in emergency, up north.  It was a five hour drive! We hurried home, and it was ten p.m.  I asked… Continue reading Emergency Room