Day: December 26, 2007

A Few of My Favorite Things

My poor mother. Little did she imagine when gave birth to me that she’d still be stuffing my Christmas stocking half a century later. In addition to the usual cotton balls and Band-Aids and Scotch tape, she always tucks in little surprises she’s found among her treasures. This year there was a rose-gold thimble belonging to a mid-1800s relativefootnote, and a small digital device onto which my no-longer-extant father recorded a message: Lulu gave me […]

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