All Things Anne

To write a post, I’ll have to back up a few weeks, to the Jamboree fundraiser Char H. put on, for her family to adopt a Filipino girl, Annie, whom they sponsored in the Summer of Hope program last year. Our family made a whole bunch of eggrolls, and it was really fun! There were [...]

I was in my room, listening to the grinding, growling noise my old alarm clock makes (which I don’t use, by the way, since I use my cell phone for alarms), when suddenly it quit. “Finally gave up the ghost,” I thought, and left the room. Things were much too quiet. “Is the power off?” [...]

The Adventure of the Chair
or, The Redneck Home Improvement Show
Once upon a time there was a family who at one time had very nice office chairs, but over the years of use, had become…well, not-so-nice. One was a trick chair–if you leaned too far back, you fell over. The back was broken on another so [...]

Ben: I’ve got the essentials: socks, underwear, and duct tape. The socks and underwear are optional.
Ben: I got $8 worth of coal.
Mom: Oh yeah? What does it look like?
Ben: Black.
Rase: Can you put lots of garlic in dinner so we can be healthy?
Joe: I think I kinda like these glasses. I’m gonna get me a [...]

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Folks, I’m sorry to bring you the sad news that Mom passed away at approximately 12:15pm today.
“Anne, could you take my blood pressure?” she asked.
“Ok.” I got up and went over to her to take her blood pressure. I put the cuff on her, adjusted [...]