At a tech job I had many years ago, the mailroom and to-desk mail delivery was done by a teenage girl who suffered from some intellectual disabilities of types I never felt the need to ask about. She had the mind and the attitude of a young child, she was always happy to say hello while dropping off and picking up packages and envelopes from ( Read more... )

One of my holiday memories from childhood is going to my mom's sister's home to decorate stacks and stacks of sugar cookies with sugar icing dyed with food coloring. While fun and festive, I found it frustrating. I was never able to make them come out as neat and nice as my aunt and my mom were able to do, using butter knives to apply the icing.

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Sunday. Travel.

Immediately after getting out of bed, I packed. Enough for just a couple of days, and I wore "nicer" slacks and a shirt, because wearing them was easier than packing. Reinflated the tire (I really must get that fixed when I return), and then Bethieee and I went to The Globe for breakfast with Adrianne ( Read more... )