When Dad wants fried chicken...he gets fried chicken. The request doesn't come often, so I was eager to fulfill his wish this evening. However, the order came in late....too late for me to thaw out chicken I had in the freezer to fry myself, and I didn't have buttermilk to soak it in..... My options were …
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Sail of a Lifetime
The voice on the other end of the phone was Kristen. "Hello, Mom? Can you hear me?" I heard the sound of crying blurred by the wind noise in the phone. I knew my daughter and her boyfriend of 3 years, Andrew, were off the coast of Wilmington, NC enjoying the afternoon on a private …
The Angel Returns
Recently, I went to the mailbox to retrieve the daily mail. Quickly flipping through the couple of postcards offering to "buy my home" and an AARP membership request, I almost passed over an envelope with the return address logo of Georgia-Pacific, Consumer Products. I paused for a moment, wondering why I’d received correspondence from this …
Cary to Calcutta 