The actual performance has escaped my memory, but I remember putting on false fingernails and painting them black, then explaining to my sister, “I can’t do dishes tonight. I have on my fingernails and I might mess them up.”

Offer us the actual price from day one, and we won’t bite. We will wait for the sale, because we have to believe we have outsmarted The Man.

Most of us had many ambitions when we were children. But did any of us want to be the author of the book “The Essential Guide – Research Writing Across the Disciplines”?

I love being busy; my retired husband can sit and “watch grass grow.” But that is only one of the differences that confirm the true statement: opposites attract.

After dinner, I cut him a piece. He took a forkful, a smile spreading across his face as he placed the delicacy in his mouth. Suddenly, I saw a look of wonder – not a positive wonder, but a “What is this?” wonder. Sure enough, he had bitten into a cherry pit. Those home canned cherries had not been pitted! How was I to know?