Knitting Class

Do you remember Home Ec class? You know, sewing, cooking, domestic stuff. “Home Economics”. That’s what they called it in the early 80s. A year or two after I started high school, they started calling it “Family Studies” as if that made some kind of difference. Reminds me of how they changed the names of […]

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Dandelions Rule

    This is my front lawn. Well, no, wait. That isn’t lawn, is it? ‘Lawn’ usually denotes Kentucky Bluegrass (the short, spindly and green kind, not the twangy, rich and bluesy). This is my front yard. No, wait. That isn’t right either. I really don’t like the connotation of ‘my’ in reference to expanses […]

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