Early last Sunday evening, I sat in my home office writing, paying a few bills, and taking inventory of the week ahead. We had just finished dinner as a family; Dave had prepared lamb shanks and the house still smelled rich and savory from a full day of braising. Once the dishwasher was loaded, we [...]
Sitting in the dentist’s office in early February waiting for my cleaning, I had almost forgotten about the tiny bump just above my upper left eye tooth. I had noticed it a few months before though I can’t remember exactly when. I dismissed it as perhaps a canker sore or some temporary inflammation (even though [...]
Last Sunday morning, Dave woke me up out of a sound sleep around 7:00 a.m. Em, I need your help. Hmm. Not a good sign because 1) Dave never wakes me up if I don’t have to be somewhere and; 2) he rarely needs my help. The combined oddities made me sit up in bed [...]
Lately more people have been leaving moderately important messages for me on my cell phone – sometimes voice, sometimes text. They aren’t emergency notifications, but the senders are in need of some sort of timely response. Which they don’t get from me. Because they left the message on my cell phone. Which was in my [...]
