Quelling Our Anxieties and Fears

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. I was in first grade at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that was old enough to understand something bad, very bad, might happen. I have a vivid memory… Continue reading Quelling Our Anxieties and Fears

Eating What Is Given

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Weeknight supper was predictable in the Rigney household: pork cutlets on Mondays; hamburger casserole on Tuesdays; beef stew or pot roast on Wednesdays; some sort of chicken on Thursdays; and on… Continue reading Eating What Is Given

True Security

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. We weren’t the kind of people who went to the doctor much, but a number of relatives at Thanksgiving dinner had told my parents that cough of mine was really bad.… Continue reading True Security

On the Nightstand: Unsheltered

My sister has been, well, my sister for decades and my roommate for nearly sixteen years. Yet we’ve never read a new-to-both-of-us book at the same time. We’re changing that up this month by reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, about two families who lived in a New Jersey home a century apart. I’ve enjoyed several other… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Unsheltered