Monthly Archives: December 2006

So far, my longest term employer is still this one, a retail store where I hid out for the better part of the nineties, through one college diploma and one baby and seven horrifying holiday seasons. It was a job; … Continue reading →

A friend told me about an interview candidate she faced across her desk recently. The candidate, a young woman, appeared to have cosmetically enhanced or very unnaturally large lips. As a young woman candidate, I suspected this or this or … Continue reading →

I’ve endured and celebrated many types of holiday parties from the somewhat sad lunch affair, exchanging gifts around a table in a cramped conference room to the overly opulent bash at the boss’s “show home,” an event that left us … Continue reading →

I made cranberry orange muffins for breakfast. I was then informed by my household that no one but me likes them. “Why? WHY?” said the boy, “did you make these when there’s a whole rainbow of other muffins you could … Continue reading →

Her name was Helen Higgins but everybody called her Granny Hig. My dad called her simply, “Hig.” To many of us, she was Granny or Gran. My grandmother lived in an apartment on the lower level of my Aunt Joan’s … Continue reading →