Party Time (Not So Much)
October 31, 2011
When I arrived to take Alice to the party, she greeted me wearing a dark violet sweater and pale lavender slacks. She waved her hands up and down to show me she was daringly bedecked in purple, head to toe. Read the rest of this entry »
Alice Makes Repairs
October 24, 2011
Alice likes to fix things. So much so that, back in Iowa, my father bought her a red toolbox for her 70th birthday and filled it with hammers, pliers, screwdriver sets, etc. He tied it up with a red bow. She considered it the best gift he ever gave her.
She passed the toolbox on to my nephew when she moved here to Oregon. I bought her a screwdriver, pliers, a purse-sized sewing kit, and a set of tiny tools for tightening loose screws in eyeglasses. But for a woman who has never met a fix-it task she didn’t like, this is a paltry supply of gizmos. Last night I realized my mother is the mother of invention when it comes to repairs. Read the rest of this entry »
Order Up!
October 18, 2011
If you have an elderly mother from the Midwest, you are probably familiar with the sight of catalogs like these on her coffee table:
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Tell Our Daughters
October 10, 2011
I liked this and thought you might like it too. Read the rest of this entry »
To the ER
October 2, 2011
Alice called me at around 10 at night and told me her blood pressure was high but she didn’t “want to go anywhere.”
“Anywhere” meant the Emergency Room. Read the rest of this entry »
