Category: Homelife

• Lest we Regret…

  This Christmas I completed my Christmas shopping without ever leaving my home. I have joined the millions of customers who buy most or all of their gifts on line.   The variety of imaginative suggestions available on the Internet grows each year, the service gets better, the standards constantly improve. BUT….. It occurs to me I […]

  frederick anderson

  December 21, 2015

  Homelife, Uncategorized

  Camping, Christmas, Competition, Crowds, deliveries, home, Human Contact, humor, On Line, sales, shopping, Theft

• Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ostrich

  There’s no putting it off, no burying your head in the sand.  It’s time. Reach into the back of the narrow cupboard, scrabble determinedly among the boxes of forgotten essentials – those things you swore you couldn’t live without, ten years ago; untouched since then, save in the cause of this one annual mission. No, […]

  frederick anderson

  December 5, 2015

  Homelife, Uncategorized

  boxes, cat, cheer, children, Christmas, decorations, dog, fairy, family, festive season, grandparents, holiday, holly, humor, lights, ritual, sprouts, tree

• Mario, Maria, and Something Slimy in the Night

  It lives somewhere, in some chamber dark and drear I know not of:  I know only it must be damp, and cold, and these things are all my consolation, because it hates me and I wish it in hell.   At night it moves, sometimes silently, sometimes with barely audible stealth.  But I hear it, and […]

  frederick anderson

  April 21, 2015

  Homelife

  #longform, anger, Crisis, destructive, DIY, family, gremlin, home, Homecare, humor, Plumbing, problem