Five years ago, I spent my lunch hour at church shovelling dirt to cover the building project scars out back, when I should have been at school preparing for my doctoral dissertation defense on Sept. 13. The contractors had their truck radio on, and that’s how I learned of the attacks. It sounded [...]
Saturday we decommissioned Stinky, our mattress, and ordered a new one. I got Stinky as a second-hand dumpster-side treasure when I was single, new to Minnesota, and only had a hard cot to sleep on. Better a clean-looking, used, name-brand mattress than nothing. Picture me dragging a substantial mattress (queen) up a [...]