Monthly Archives: April 2007

She set the spare ribs out to thaw hours ahead of time. She came back an hour before everyone would be ready to eat, quickly and deftly chopped and sauteed an onion, whipped up some barbecue sauce, putting her ingredients away and wiping up anything that spilled or splattered, and then she rinsed her dishes […]

We’re doing some major rearranging here, or rather, the Progeny are, because around here and especially of late when I say WE that mostly means they because I flatly cannot cope with far too much and it takes far too little to flatten me. But, as I say, major rearranging is being done. This is […]

I’ve been a traditional wife and I’ve always defined traditoinal wife as a woman who puts down whatever she is doing to go to the place she is needed. Then you can go back and entertain yourself. Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden

I’m reading this and this this morning.