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Your Life & Mine: Ironing Day
My brother Bob and I loved ironing day. On ironing day, our mother filled the laundry basket with dampened clothes. She wrestled her old wooden ironing board from its place in the closet and plugged in her iron. Then as she pressed out the wrinkles in our clothes, she told us stories. Knights and kings,…
A Glance Back – Snow Storm!
Today was one of those sweet days that I get to stay home and write! I was so wrapped up in the world I was writing about that I wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on outside my windows Then my dad called. I was surprised to hear that he was not able…