Tag Archives: Family

Wisdom Discount

Posted on August 11, 2023 by sputterpub

I gave up cannabis a while ago.I had to stop all smoking, and what’s more,the high was unreliable. I knowsome other ways to take it in, but vapeinduced a cough, and gummies didn’t showa benefit I could appreciate.My wisdom discount … Continue reading →

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Parsimony

Posted on August 8, 2023 by sputterpub

The dowager becomes more miserlywith every year that’s passed. Although her wealthincreases from compound longevity,and she sustains most limb and organ health,her gift for giving dims more than her sight;her spending’s lost more volume than her ears.For holidays she writes … Continue reading →

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Snicks

Posted on August 6, 2023 by sputterpub

We made the cookies early Saturday.Participants were two years old and six.They measured solids carefully the waywe read, while I creamed sugar with the sticksof butter, to the texture of wet clay.Our bowl soon held a yummy perfect mixwe rolled … Continue reading →

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Disclosive

Posted on July 31, 2023 by sputterpub

Disclosive is my preference, but I tryto filter speech so it won’t seem unkind.I’m never like my mother, whose replyis often what looms loudest in her mind.I’d rather not keep secrets or be sly –to tell the truth I’ll always … Continue reading →

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Wistful

Posted on July 30, 2023 by sputterpub

Two days with kids I love and then I leftas scheduled, and I should feel relief.But my emotion’s something like bereft,though I can’t call it any kind of grief.My heart is whole. I don’t detect a cleftand I want time … Continue reading →

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Attraction Theory

Posted on July 21, 2023 by sputterpub

I often wondered why Dad chose our mom,until considering how he was raised.Four sisters and his mother lacked aplomband energy. The only goods they praisedwere money and big jewelry that glazedextremities. Their phobias were vast,and Dad by Mom was probably … Continue reading →

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Not Yet

Posted on July 18, 2023 by sputterpub

No doubt I’ll eulogize her after death,but she’s adhering longer than we dreamed.More tired steadily and short of breath,reduced to traits about which we’ve long screamed,instead of growing softer than she seemedwhen in her prime, she’s meanly concentratingthe qualities I … Continue reading →

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Unfiltered

Posted on July 14, 2023 by sputterpub

My mother never filters her own speechamong her family or closest friends.Whenever I’d correct her and beseechher to speak gentler, she’ll excuse herselfby claiming that such freedoms only reachto those she loves the most. She’ll justifyimpulsive with affection’s guise on … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Safety

Posted on July 11, 2023 by sputterpub

When I set up my kitchen as a spouseof 23 (the ones before were loosearrangements with my roommates, in a houseor casual apartment – no excuse,but no deliberate acquisition spree),I purchased several powders, I recall,to douse a kitchen fire, should … Continue reading →

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Mother Knows Not

Posted on July 10, 2023 by sputterpub

So many things my mother said were wrong.I had suspicions early, but I triedobedience at first. It wasn’t longbefore I grew to be dissatisfied.I ran my own experiments – a throngof variance successfully applied.Each step led to another, till my … Continue reading →

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