The Sticky Note
The record of a neurology visit that never happened was sitting in a folder on the front seat of my truck on Friday afternoon, along with a printed copy of …
The Sticky Note Read MoreAuthor: pologo
The Army Wreath
The document that I laid on the table of the HOA board in the clubhouse that Thursday night was a yellowed set of covenants, eleven pages long, typed on a …
The Army Wreath Read MoreThe Flip Phone
The battery of the flip phone of my husband Roy was at four percent when I took it to the kitchen counter and plugged it into an old charger I …
The Flip Phone Read MoreThe Laundry Room Table
The big man in the Sooners sweater drove me home from Tulsa that Thanksgiving night in a silent gray sedan, with my paper plate still on my knee and the …
The Laundry Room Table Read MoreThe Childrens Table
When my grandson Tyler stood up from the head table in the ballroom in Asheville and began to walk through two hundred and fifty guests toward the little round table …
The Childrens Table Read MoreThe Pawn Ticket
The woman who had signed the logbook at the pawn shop on Brainerd Road came through the kitchen door of the house of my daughter at five in the afternoon …
The Pawn Ticket Read MoreThe RV Window
The woman who telephoned my bank about my estate was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck of my grandson in the driveway when I came out of the …
The RV Window Read MoreThe Room 14 Call
The woman in Room 14 of Willow Brook Senior Living in Dayton had white hair braided like a girl and a face that looked out the window at nothing, and …
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I came up the basement stairs one slow step at a time, with the gray file box in my arms, and my son Todd stood at the top with the …
The Gray File Box Read MoreThe Wedding Ring Quilt
The quilt on the four poster bed in the master bedroom of the house on Jones Street in Savannah was the Double Wedding Ring quilt that my grandmother had sewn …
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