I awake with a start. Disoriented, I look for the clock. It’s not there. I shake my head for clarity and realize I’m on the couch. Did I fall asleep, and Laura came in too quietly? What time is it? I stumble to the kitchen and squint at the clock—3:30. […]
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When the phone rings at 2:30 a.m., it’s never good news. Monday morning, it was assisted living, saying that my in-law had fallen out of bed. An ambulance was called, and she was transported to the emergency room. I got there around 7:45 a.m. The ER was like walking into […]
This is what the sock is REALLY thinking! Her feet are stinky, old and smellyWith corns, calluses and bunions.Why would I want to live there?I’m tired of smelling like onions! Some days they hurt and ache.Some days they make her sad!Her shoes no longer fit so good,Which really makes her […]
Sock, sock, sock, poor deserted sock. Everyone laments his missing mate. No one thinks about us, the many lonely knee-highs. We don’t get any respect. We are thrown individually and carelessly into a drawer without our mates. Where there are piles of different shades of tan, grey, black, sheer and […]
I’m hiding, I’m hidingbut no one knows where.They’ve looked all aroundand see me nowhere. They’ve checked in the dresser,but I was not theretrapped in a nightgownor some underwear. They looked in the dryerwhere some laundry lies.But I wouldn’t hidewhere the air is so dry. They thought I might bein the […]
I found it! I found it!After missing for one yearThe matching orange sport sockWhich to me was very dear. I looked high and low for it.It could have been anywhere.Inside another dresser drawer?Trapped in my clean underwear? Or maybe lost in the dryer.Where do those darn socks go?Perhaps to some […]
By Ken Creeger My father was a tool man. He loved his tools and used them every day in his work and when needed at home. They fit perfectly in his hands and were extensions of his fingers. A talented self-taught mechanic, he could fix nearly anything mechanical, including diagnosing […]