The Sea Bag My Granddaughter Almost Gave Away
My granddaughter Piper had it halfway into the trunk of Pearl Hutchins’s church van before I even knew what was happening. Fifty-two years of my… Read more
The Rummage Sale Price War
I have priced a lot of things wrong in my life, but nothing like the morning I stood in the basement of Grace Community Church… Read more
The Notes On The Backs Of Mama’s Cards
The recipe box is a green tin one with a hinged lid that does not close all the way anymore, and for four years it… Read more
The Knitting Circle Set Me Up
For eleven years I was the woman who found everybody else somebody. I paired off half of Dunmore County from a card table at the… Read more
The Ice Cream Truck That Brought Us Back
For thirty eight years I fixed other people’s furnaces, and the week I finally retired I went out and spent nine hundred dollars on the… Read more
My Mother-in-Law and the Casserole War
The casserole arrived before I did. I want you to understand the timeline, because the timeline is the whole problem. I came home from the… Read more