The More We Own The Less We Have to Name If we had only one coat, we would call it Warm, but if we got another, it would not be Warmer, just our other coat, and if we bought, borrowed, stole or...
Our stove was broken. The oven burned everything and the biggest burner, the one I used every meal, either ran on high or not at all. It was one more thing we didn’t have time for, didn’t have money. Not long ago, when our finances led me to consider...
(Laura Lynn Brown, over at Makesyoumom.com is leading a discussion this summer around self-care – you can find upcoming discussion topics here. Then add your voice to the conversation in the comments. This conversation is near and dear to my...
My husband made a shovel for gathering the ashes out of our wood stove in the mornings. Before that we were using my son’s plastic beach shovel, but hot coals and plastic, well . . . He made the scoop out of a tin can which, up until dinner...
It sat alone, across the muddy tractor tracks, next to the stinking porta-potties in a wide and muddy pit. Enjoying the wagon ride out to the fields, the hacksaw in hand and children all around, my husband and I hardly noticed the wide plastic sign,...
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