Excerpt from "Dave and Busia"
. . . My reflection on meeting a friend's 108-year-old grandmother. . .
We talked about how she came to America. She seemed sad, remembering how she left Poland. Her mother, it seems, had sent her away. Dave said later that he thought her mother was jealous of her, the oldest of the children, and sent her away without consulting her father because, as Busia said, he was always at the station with the horse and buggy, waiting to take people to the mud treatment their village was famous for. Dave suspects infidelities. Busia just repeated, “He never knew, he never knew,” as if she had been stolen away from her father. Her eyes downcast, her head shaking from side to side, her fingers working the robe lifting it up and lowering it back to her lap, her cheeks trembling.
Excerpt from "Maine Stay" in The Teacher Who Ate Her Pet
. . . a personal memoir about a trip with 3 girlfriends to celebrate our 50th birthdays. . .
The Thomaston Prison Store wasn’t the only place we shopped. Candy and I had to ship boxes back because we indulged our need for mementos a little too much. I got books and yarn and t-shirts. She wouldn’t want me to say what she sent home. In fact, she made me swear I wouldn’t. Her box was so heavy the UPS guys didn’t believe her when she told them what was in it.
“I’ll bet you’ve never had anyone ship anything that strange before,” she challenged.
“Someone sent birch logs back to New Mexico once. That was probably the weirdest thing we ever shipped,” the clerk answered.
“Well, how bout if I told you it’s my ex-husband? That’d be pretty weird!”
We laughed heartily. The men behind the counter just stared at us. Maybe it was the tiaras.
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