“Do you go to this church?” I asked him.
 
“This is my church,” he answered me, as he loaded food-encrusted plates into the church’s industrial dishwasher.
 
I nodded, fully understanding. There is nothing more communal or giving than helping feed the homeless and disadvantaged. One does not need to sit through a sixty-minute service or donate [...]

 
So lately I have found myself wallowing in my self-induced despair that I cannot find a part-time writing job that works with my ridiculously specific hours and pays me a decent hourly range.
 
In this horrid bad job market. I know.
 
My husband is about ready to drop-kick me to the closest unemployment office so [...]

 
So I cleaned our house for the first time in four years and found out the following:
 
1) Alas, it took me much longer than the 2 hours my cleaning lady normally spent since she was clearly in the wrong profession and I am old.
 
2) There were no less than ten colonies of spiders living in [...]