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June was approaching and with it, my 70th birthday. They wanted to give me a party, the grown children. I was horrified. At 3 score and 10...
I was still uncivilized; I stood out among the Wednesday morning commuters in their ties and pencil skirts, awaiting lattes at Starbucks....
How to Eat Crabs with Your Mother-in-Law
At exactly 5:50 p.m., your mother-in-law will anxiously announce, “Someone needs to go get the crabs right now!” When you first...
We have to wear plain black clothes to mask class so our selves don’t intrude. People with hair that falls in their face must pin it...
Man, we went to the Manchester fair last night, and the rodeo was in town. I had a pulled-pork sandwich that the Emanuel Church sold out of...
After my father toured what would become our neighborhood in Fairfax, California, he knocked on the nearest door and asked the man...
A kid could have drowned that day. I sat under the umbrella on my lifeguard tower, saving my sixteen-year-old self. Twirling my whistle, I...
