In my childhood, our family ate dinner with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley reporting the news. My assigned task was to hurdle the pet gate to turn the living room set to its nuclear noise level before racing back, re-hurdling, and finding my seat at the white Formica table (to eat in silence as we played out a family dysfunction). In later … [Read more...]
Who Knew a Tree Stump Could be So Awesome?
In a former life, I lived with my husband in a beautiful neighborhood where the sounds of lawn service workers riding mowers punctuated the air summer weekends as their trucks lined the streets. Our yard also was devoid of tree stumps, as were the meticulously landscaped yards of our neighbors. In fact, we even paid a tree man to grind stumps out … [Read more...]