Family, Orderliness, and ... Punctuation
Family: It’s six in the morning, I’ve been up since 4:50, waking to the sound of thunder and rain. I’m housesitting at my daughter’s, keeping an eye on a potentially leaky basement after the rain floods here a couple of weeks ago. I’ve spent some of my time here watching tennis, but also—cleaning and organizing. You may not agree with me, but I think it’s a mother’s prerogative to clean her child’s house when house sitting. I haven’t thrown away anything, or snooped, just tidied up and organized a bit. My daughter has a busy life and is a foodie with a small kitchen and a vast array of cooking oils and vinegars stored haphazardly on two shelves. So I organized the smaller bottles into containers, cleaned the shelves, and now it looks even tidier than my own very small collection at home. I returned home on the weekend to attend our annual family picnic with about sixty people spanning four generations. I know the names of my cousins’ kids, but when you get down to the next gene...
