This is the short and the long of it . . . William Shakespeare
My youngest sister describes our childhood as “Little Women” meets “Lord of the Flies.” If you haven’t read either book, think of spending your early childhood years with a happy cocker spaniel and your later childhood years with a weird and mean-spirited pit bull. My father was an alcoholic or rather, he grew into his [...]
Life on the farm had turned gloomy with its own dark Bronte periods. My mother was saddled with a gaggle of drunks since my father and both of his parents lived on the farm and they were all into the drink: or in the patois of the Boomer generation, substance abusers. So there we were, [...]
I’m going to kill him when he gets back from Wales. How does one say in Welsh, “you are so done for”. He and the boys went off to a wedding in Wales and he forgot the suits. I had been a nervous wreck for weeks thinking about this trip. He would be traveling for [...]
A couple I know bought a house with a big mistake on it, a thirty-year old cypress tree. Decades ago some well-intentioned idiot planted four of these comely but someday monsters on a lot the size of my living room. One was cut down years ago. The city cut down two more in the late [...]
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