A full house comes in a variety of forms. But you knew that. There’s cards, then there’s my houseful last night. How full?
BEACH TOWN? THERE’S ONLY ONE
Beach town is where I grew up. We had beaches all over the place, surrounded by beaches. But it was a bay town, a town on Coos Bay. Just not Coos Bay.
RED FLAG, OR JUST BEING AN ADULT?
Who is quick to pull a red flag as often as possible? The same people who whine the loudest when they get flagged. If that’s you, let’s talk about flagmanship, red flagmanship.
YELLED AT? HOW TO RECOVER
Getting yelled at is not an experience for the timid. But how often do we have a choice of who yells what? Never. Especially when it goes off the tracks, off topic. Then it’s not about you, but them. Goes like this:
MARRIAGE EXPERIMENTS: DUCK FOOTBALL OR PORTLAND TRIP?
Marriage experiments are not for the non-scientist. I’m not a scientist, but my wife is. She’s the one who tries new things and keeps an eye out for my response. But that doesn’t make me the experiment. Or does it?
BUSY HANDS TELL THIS STORY
Hers were busy hands. She was a woman who did more than she took credit for, gave all she had, then made more. Joan needed busy hands. A baker’s daughter, she learned lessons early; how to mix and cook and clean up afterwards was in her DNA. Memories shot through a hospital room in a […]