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“Hey, I’m home. What’s that I smell?” “Oh, that? It’s furniture polish. Bought a new kind… finished polishing just as you walked in the door. How was the golf? You and Booger win today?” "I swear. They oughta make furniture polish that smells like the inside of a new car.” “You say that about everything. I remember when you told your barber that he needed to invent...

In talking to a few friends around my age, the subject turned to possessions, specifically our possessions. Having broken through the glass ceiling of seventy, you might correctly guess that a few of the items we own are rather old. More so, some of our possessions were given to us by our parents which adds a couple of decades to the age of those items. You might call them antiques...

If only I could be inside your thought to alter it a bit for understanding, make windows in it, have a candle lit and fill it with new furniture and plants. To alter it a bit for understanding of how it is that I did what I did, I would just shift the tables and the chairs, make windows in it, have a candle lit, because I care to make you see my point, I would so much be with you in your...

Something I did recently that apparently most people do all the time. I rearranged my family room. When a new piece of furniture comes into our house I usually put it in its place and it stays there. Recently we got new furniture for our family room and instead of putting it in the same place the other furniture was I moved things around. I must say it does look a lot better. My daughter is...

The following is a true story. About three decades ago, I separated from my then wife. While I suspect we both knew things weren't going well for us, I was the one to suggest the separation - the first step towards a divorce. After a month or so, I had a call from my wife suggesting we try to work things out. That seemed reasonable to me since I wasn't proud of the fact that my marriage seemed...

Hurstwood's residence could scarcely be said to be infused with this home spirit. It lacked...

It all began so innocently. We opened the garage door before dawn to heave our booty out into the yard for display by sunup. There is always a group of ‘buyers’ who show up before you’re ready, and our yard sale was no different. He pulled up in front, got out of his car, and we said, “We’re not ready yet (having 4 things on only one of our many rented tables). He replied, “Well,...