February 23rd, 2010
Ring, ring, ring
ebrother: “hey, I can’t talk right now. Mom’s at the office and all four of us are having a family meeting.”
elaney: ”Since when do you have family meetings without me?”
ebrother (chuckling, and calling out to the others): ”hey, it’s that girl that lives out of town. Anyone want to talk to her? No, not Aunt Margaret (who lives in Seattle and we’ve meet twice), the other one.”
ebrother (turning back to the phone): “Yeah, sorry, we gotta go.”
Click.
SCENE.
February 16th, 2010
“elaney, what are you going to do when ruffles are no longer fashionable?” – Reader g-love
January 18th, 2010
“It’s tempting to get caught up in grand gestures and bold decisions, but what if you have your own Blind Side right in front of you?” – eMum, on elaney wanting to adopt a Michael Oher
January 18th, 2010
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 30th, 2009
“I have worn the pearls for all three of the biggest events of my life: childbirth, my wedding day, and prom.” – Reader Isa, on why she wore the pearls
October 23rd, 2009
“Wanna know my First World problem, elaney? The car we keep at Sea Island is a Subaru, and I hate driving it to tibi.” - Reader Mo
