The New Status
Well it’s taken 42 years and 13 days, but I think I’ve finally earned my super hero badge, I’m not sure if that includes a whole outfit or just the cape part, but clearly I’ve got some sowing to do. It’s easy enough to say that sweetie and I earned them a few years back what with keeping Ike alive that first year when he was sick and in and out of the hospital all that time. But that’s your blood and kin. There isn’t anything you wouldn’t do for your own child—jump through a ring of fire and back or sit through a religious soaked Multi Level Marketing presentation about the benefits of Micro-Nutrients; the new millennium’s snake oil. No, you’d take a bullet for your own family, no doubt about it. I found myself at the deli section of the local mini-mart yesterday afternoon, getting some cold cuts for last nights quick and easy dinner idea: Sandwiches. At the other end of the counter a young woman shows up with her infant in the seat a grocery cart. The little girl was probably n...