“Everyone eats and drinks, yet few appreciate food.”
Confucious
Big Daddy-O was away and the girls and I had to run an errand in the late afternoon. It took longer than I had anticipated, so at 5:20 pm I decided to pick-up Chinese food for dinner instead of cooking at home.
“But I don’t [...]
“A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”
Bill Vaughn
When Fig is too quiet, it usually means trouble. I was in Pip’s bedroom, assisting with her fifteenth costume-change of the [...]
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns
Do you remember Grassman? Well, he’s still around. He’s been hanging out on our kitchen counter with our jade plant, watching the fall storms blow through our yard. Some of [...]
“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.”
George Saunders
I made a big mistake the other night. I took Fig’s diaper off and let her dance around the living-room in her birthday suit. It was just before the girls’ bath and she was only going to be naked for a few [...]
“It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
Andrew Jackson
For some reason, Pip uses the phrase, “Alls I need…” My husband never says, ‘ALLS,’ I’ve never used it, and I haven’t heard anyone else use it around Pip, so I have no idea [...]
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Saint Augustine
Pip and Fig both have miserable colds at the moment. Neither of them are sleeping well, which means that I, too, am overtired. By about 4:00 pm yesterday, I noticed that my patience was disappearing. Pip was riding her new bike in the back [...]
“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Honore de Balzac
Who was Murphy and why must there be such a law? On the one night last week that my husband had to go back to work after dinner and skip [...]