“Breeep, breeep, BREEEP!” The sharp piercing staccato of our fire alarm fills the airspace. Big Papa and I are making Shepherd’s Pie from scratch and setting off the fire alarm is part of our annual tradition.
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Archive for December, 2009
Big Papa and I received positive news recently that we moved up the ‘line’ in our wait. The line is the imaginary place each family takes after they submit their dossier. I say imaginary because all kinds of factors play into where you are in the line. When you submit …
March 20, 1969. Backs straight in our au courant “pleather” mini-jumper dresses, Dee and I sat side by side for our fourth grade class photo. On December 20, 2008, thirty-nine years and nine months to the day this picture was taken, she died. We’d been friends for nearly forty-three years, ...
