During my early teen years, our clothes dryer was broken beyond repair. My parent’s immediate solution was to string a line across the backyard and buy clothespins. Our desert climate lent itself to air drying, so that is what we did for a long time.

My mom taught my siblings and I to hang […]

Because that is how many we have to send to school with our kids when they start the 2008-2009 school year next week.

Last year’s count was about 250, and the motor in our electric sharpener overheated several times when it was time to sharpen the yellow wad of cheap wood and graphite. The […]