She’s watched for his return at each day’s evening, his briefcase stuffed as if with deermeat, umbrella a spent spear. Forty years of triumphal entrances, attentive welcomings, end in this gift-loaded euphoric homecoming. Something near to fear
stirs in her. The house has been hers throughout the core of every day, close shelter for her busy morning hours, her re-creative afternoons. Now it opens its traitor door, switches allegiances to his clamour, his masterfulness, his more insistent needs. How long had she dug, hoed and planted the suburban flower patch, made it colourful and fragrant for his weekend leisure? Now he comes in with the air of a pioneer, as if her patient garden were wilderness for his first cultivation; and she’ll pretend
(habits are hard to break) when called on to admire, that everything he grows is magical, as if no million years but he alone made this summer’s rose.
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Windex Oh dear. I don’t know what to think. You see that bottle Linda Evangelista is holding? It isn’t Windex, it is perfume. What are we to make of this? Are we to guffaw and ho ho ho and appreciate the irony…
When two hearts come together as one, they are liable, have they reached a certain age, to have accumulated much in the way of domestic paraphernalia and thus the blending of two houses is a far more complicated business than this bride…
Hello Darlings, welcome to the weekend and welcome back to Housewives In Art. This time round I will be featuring one picture per post so we can step into my chosen picture and get a feel for the moment in time it…
Yes, another lovely continental market on a day that looked a whole lot like Spring… Now it is dusky dark. Finley is in bed and Mark and I are about to snuggle up and watch "Me, You and Everyone We Know" (I…
And so I find myself trapped back in mumps prison. Finn’s face is fatter than ever and the chances of mixing with the rest of humanity still scarce. So what’s a good housekeeper to do? Strip I say. Strip away the nonsense…
Oh, How Time’s Change… "One of the unpaid, unsung tasks of wives is to act as prop and booster of husbandly morale. Women often joke about this, but the wisest of us realise that it is a very important part of marriage….
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
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Aint that the truth!!!
Aint that the truth!!!
Ouch. Yes. Nice poem! Where did you find that? So poignant.
Ouch. Yes. Nice poem! Where did you find that? So poignant.
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….