Author Archives: S.

It was cancerette, really, just a tiny thing, just under my nose. It looked like a drop of lotion I hadn’t rubbed in well, about as big as a sesame seed. Don’t stop me if I’ve already told you this … Continue reading →

I haven’t finished painting the cabinets. They need another coat. I don’t even have a good excuse, particularly. I mean, I had to housesit the weekend after I put the first coat on, but it’s not like I was housesitting … Continue reading →

Today we are going to have a lesson in placing phone calls. Here are a few things we don’t say when the person at the other end answers the phone: 1. Who is this? 2. How you doing today? 3. … Continue reading →

A year or so ago, I had a friend(ish) who was a correspondent to another blog I keep. Many of his replies and posts were along the lines of people just don’t get me and people don’t like me and … Continue reading →

I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, addressing an envelope to some reader who wanted an extra copy. Nothing strenuous or overly taxing, you understand. And then my head hurt. It didn’t hurt before that, but then … Continue reading →

What I did was I painted my kitchen cabinets. My kitchen cabinets were fairly new – maybe two years old. I picked them out and ordered them myself, in fact. But the color was…off. It wasn’t white and it wasn’t … Continue reading →

Every year, I like to post the story of Curtisene Lloyd, because she is one of my personal heroes. I did not write the following story, Jill Conner Browne did, in her 1999 book, The Sweet Potato Queens Book of … Continue reading →

I had an appointment this morning in a building I could see from my office if there weren’t a billboard in the way. I gave myself twenty minutes to get there anyway, because contrary to popular opinion, I do try … Continue reading →