That's Life
Updated 12:00 a.m., Sun May 12, 2013
Saying those three little words on Mother’s Day
When I write a column about Mother’s Day, it reminds me of what editor Ben Bradlee said in the movie All the President’s Men about the Washington Post’s Watergate investigation. “We’re under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing’s riding on this except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.” Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but not much. Writing about mothers is a loaded subject. If I write about myself, I feel the angst of everything I did wrong raising my two boys. (I make a mental lis... READ MORE
Heart attack, snake bite or shingles?
In the space of a few days, my husband thought he had a heart attack, pulled muscle, snake bite or the shingles. He was right about one of them. Martyr that he is, he didn’t tell me immediately that he was having pain. It started after he worked in the backyard, pulling weeds and raking. He picked up piles of leaves with his bare hands and put them in a yard-waste can. He noticed one of the sticks in the can moving and, on second gla...
