Things Mom Said

The vibrating noise in our bathroom just sounded wrong. My mind, following a well-worn path, immediately went to calamity: It must be water pressure building in a pipe that could soon burst. I called my working-at-home husband. To avert emergency, he left his home office, walked across the hall, and opened the cabinet doors under the sink. Noting the buzzing was louder, he cleverly turned off the water valve. *Important background note: Between the two of us we can muster abo

Mostly I've only stared up at skyscrapers from ground level, mouth agape. But during this climb, I kept looking down, clenching my jaw...

I wasn't expecting the path to the bedroom would be paved with lies...