Author | Humorist | Eco-Worrier
MEMORIAL DAY
Looking ahead to the long weekend, with no holiday travel planned, my mind turns to the never-ending list of chores. After all the rains this past winter (and the brush clearance notice in the mail), weeding, weeding and weeding number 1, 2 and 3 on the list. Not that there aren’t plenty of other tasks—when you live in a 96-year-old house, there’s always a long list—but none carry the threat of a $700+ fine if I don’t complete
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As the emails inviting me to events and interviews pile up, the insanity of celebrating our one Earth just one day a year strikes me as ridiculous as limiting myself to a single kernel of popcorn per movie. As if I could! Seriously, folks, where would we be without the breathable air, drinkable water, and comfortable climate
…I know “March Madness” refers to college basketball, but I’ve decided to co-opt the term. It’s high time, in my own opinion, we had a month to honor our own various forms of madness, be it fury at the political scene or a pathological inability to pass up a cheese plate.
And it seems like there’s more and
We creep past the house, scanning the wares laid out on the driveway, while avoiding the hopeful gaze of the woman tending them. Is there anything here that entices us to tackle parking on this narrow, bumper-to-bumper-parked street? We spy
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