one potato, two potato, three potato, four

At grocery store in a small- too small a town, at times, that she calls home – she runs into her father’s girlfriend.

This is the woman who started up with her dad before he was finished with her mom.

This is the woman she called on the phone and begged   to let go of her dad. She sobbed and begged. She begged and sobbed. To which mistress said only “you don’t understand, we are soulmates”

Daughter needed to hang up in that moment as she felt violently ill.

But now 5 years later, in the produce section, she sees the woman who is now still living with her dad.

She did not move to say hello. She did not move.

She just stared with a thin line of a mouth as she put potatoes in a bag.

She did not realize until she got home that she had 22 large potatoes.

She lives alone and does like
like potatoes.

what is that one stage all children go through and it feels great until you realize it is not what you think it is – at all, dammit ? Click here to read my new post

hostage

Once upon a time in the throws of PMS, she crept into the kitchen late at night and bit the head off a large LINDT easter bunny belonging to one of her children. She sat in darkness feeling both her guilt and her pleasure fight with one another.

The next day the children took inventory and saw the beheading. They swung to address the mother and all she could say, straight faced was “Isn’t that amazing, he fell down and broke his head.”

They weren’t buying.

Then-“Those manufacturers of fine chocolate shipped the bunnies without heads. Shame.”

“Momma, the head was on him yesterday”

“Mice?”

“Momma!”

“OKAY OKAY. My kingdom for your forgiveness. I could not control myself. Now is a good time as ever to discuss hormones and how they take hostage of you”

NEVER travel lightly. Believe me. Click here for my packing list from the weekend

rest

“The best six doctors anywhere

and no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest and air

Exercise and diet.

These six will gladly you attend

If only you are willing

Your mind they’ll ease

Your will they’ll mend

And charge you not a shilling.”

~Nursery rhyme  by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

one more quote on health by clicking here and here is to yours over this upcoming long weekend!