I didn’t want a fish. I don’t want a fish. Anything but another fish in this house. How many do we have, thanks to my husband’s hobby? He has two salt water tanks, two fresh water tanks, and a koi pond outside. So a fish of my own was not what I longed for. But [...]
After a long grueling car trip to New Hampshire we found, after a while, that we exhausted our best controversial conversational topics, discussed the year’s best movies, tired of the CDs we had brought along and lost interest in local radio programming. Everyone was bored and restless. Our mood had to be elevated, so I [...]
They were two friends from Guatemala, young, pretty and energetic. They cleaned houses together. Every Thursday morning Maria and Carlita zipped in and zoomed in around, chattering and giggling endlessly in Spanish as they worked their way through the dust mites. One day as I worked in my garden I noticed two large planters overflowing [...]
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