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Category: Friday Round-Up
I’m Tired Like It’s Friday Friday Round-Up
I bought a sequined jacket for a big event later this month. I have never owned such an item and can’t believe I’ll have the gumption to wear it, but I have nothing else to wear so this will have to be my dip… Continue Reading “I’m Tired Like It’s Friday Friday Round-Up”
Big Mac by the Dumpster Friday Round-Up
$83 million is not nothin’. That’s what Trump is supposed to pay E. Jean Carroll for defaming her minutes after getting found liable of defaming her in the first place. Defamation recidivism. The case will go on forever and Trump supporters, including women unfortunately,… Continue Reading “Big Mac by the Dumpster Friday Round-Up”
Vacuum My Way to Paradise Friday Round-Up
In the way that I sometimes wait for my plants to beg for water like poor souls stranded in Death Valley, I wait until my carpet is an abomination before I plug in the vacuum cleaner. I don’t know why that is. I’m thinking… Continue Reading “Vacuum My Way to Paradise Friday Round-Up”
Why Do I Own This? and Other Pressing Matters Friday Round-Up
This has been on my bookshelf, apparently for a long time, but I just saw it a few days ago. Written on the front cover is 12-13-44 which I take to be a date. Inside is stamped a very faded $1.75, its price. I… Continue Reading “Why Do I Own This? and Other Pressing Matters Friday Round-Up”
What’s the New Leaf You’re Turning Friday Round-Up
Bumping along is an almost irresistible occupation. It is so comfortable. So easy. It doesn’t require wearing pants with a zipper. And, if you’re a certain age, say, mid-70’s, no one expects you to do much more than bump along. No one looks askance… Continue Reading “What’s the New Leaf You’re Turning Friday Round-Up”
Cheese the Season Friday Round-Up
When I was a kid, my mother or her designee (often me) mopped and waxed the kitchen floor once a week. No one who knows me now would ever imagine I was raised this way. When my mom was a housewife, before she became… Continue Reading “Cheese the Season Friday Round-Up”
Be Still My Shrimp Friday (Saturday) Round-Up
I bought two jigsaw puzzles at Goodwill. Before she died of Alzheimer’s, my mother worked on a jigsaw puzzle set up on a card table in the living room where the afternoon sun came through the sheer curtains over the picture window. She looked… Continue Reading “Be Still My Shrimp Friday (Saturday) Round-Up”
Pretty Saucy Friday Round-Up
I bought a nine dollar bottle of Carolina barbecue sauce and then exploded it all over the kitchen floor. I wasn’t looking for barbecue sauce when I bought it but the bottle was at eye level while I was waiting for the butcher to… Continue Reading “Pretty Saucy Friday Round-Up”
It’s a Lot Friday Round-Up
Our daughter and her wonderful boy were here for the weekend, and it was grand. We made a great many pancakes that we drowned in maple syrup from an old friend’s family farm in Michigan. We hiked. Ate amazing Mexican food at a place… Continue Reading “It’s a Lot Friday Round-Up”
Where’s the List Friday Round-Up
I never took up fishing. I decided a couple of years ago that having a good cane pole and some nice new bobbers would really spruce up my life. I remembered my very short and very wide grandma in her house dress and a… Continue Reading “Where’s the List Friday Round-Up”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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