Seeking
A co-worker once asked me if I grew up during the Depression. “No, I did not,”
Long -Ter m
I snapped. “But at least I grew up.”
Relationships
I might have been a little defensive, but she was teasing me about my ancient radio and she wasn’t the first person to do it. The radio was a hand-me-down from my husband who bought it before we met, and we met a long time ago. He was going to toss it, so I rescued it and took it to my office because it still
By Dorothy Rosby
worked—usually. Sometimes it didn’t come on when I turned it on. And sometimes it came on when I hadn’t turned it on. It was like magic, but that’s not why I kept it. I didn’t keep it for sentimental reasons either. When it quit working altogether, I disposed of it and took my son’s castoff boom-box to my office, and it’s been there ever since. And I didn’t keep the radio because I’m too cheap to buy a new one. I’m not cheap. I might not even qualify as thrifty. I don’t clip coupons, I rarely shop sales and I eat avocados—a lot. Nobody who buys as many avocados as I do could be called thrifty. Those things are green because they’re made of
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