Sublime

When you walked in the door of their apartment, you saw a portrait of John on the facing wall. On the entry table was a pewter plate with 6 pairs of glasses and 3 sets of keys. To the right of the entry was the kitchen, which had a restaurant-quality oven and burners, a sub-zero refrigerator, and an attached dining nook. To the left was the living

her mother would say, “Jane, take your brother out, please.”

precocious.

Another woman I worked with, an intelligent and gifted woman, told me of her grandmother, who lived in the Midwest. Her grandmother’s idea of a really good time was to board the train to Chicago and wear a big hat, and walk down Michigan Avenue looking in all the shop windows and being an elegant lady. By hook or by crook or by fate, she married a

The $100,000 Salt and Pepper Shaker

freshman year, the year Jane’s grandmother died and Jane moved with her mother and sister into her grandmother’s house in Awadapquit.

wonder, vision, peace, freedom from worry, freedom from demands, freedom from constant clacking. All these treasures from home are meant to be cached in the psyche for later use in the topside world.

denouement.