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My granddad, Horace Adams, turns 89 today. I called this morning to wish him a Happy Birthday, and when he answered, he told me he was reading. That he was reading was good news. Last summer, he had cataract surgery on his good eye. A scratched cornea during his recovery caused concern that he wouldn’t [...]
In early 1992, my husband and I began construction on a new home. We’d put our home on the market, sold it within a week, and given every penny we had to a “preferred” builder in the new neighborhood we’d chosen as a deposit on the new place. Right around the time the roof [...]
Two weeks into my marriage, I learned that my new husband had a strange obsession. I walked into the tiny spare bedroom of our rented duplex and found the man lying on his stomach with approximately 30 tiny plastic figurines strewn out before him. “Don’t touch a thing!” he said, jumping up and pushing me [...]
Laverne and Shirley, my obstreperous dachshunds, spent the better part of the afternoon shredding their bed. “Why?” I asked when I got home and saw the damage. Shirley rolled her eyes and said, “As if you didn’t know.” She trotted over to a pot of flowers, pulled out a yellow Gerbera daisy, and began pulling [...]
Eight years ago, I found myself in a twelve by twelve room of a rehab facility listening as my husband read aloud the following statement, written in his own hand: “I have struggled quite a bit with alcohol the past year, but what you don’t know is my behaviors that led to my drinking. Last [...]
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