Thursday, November 5, 2009
THERE WON'T EVER BE ANOTHER DAY LIKE THIS ONE
Martha didn' talk to anybody about what the doctor had said for a long time. She wasn't comfortable with what Dr. Baker kept telling her. Martha finally discussed it with her friend and confident, Minnie Gilbert. At least she was a woman, and had gone through the change already. Those things alone put her way out of Dr. Baker's class as far as experience went, Martha reckoned. Minnie had visited often over the past eleven years, but after their little talk, she took to dropping by almost every...
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Monday, November 2, 2009
I JUST KNEW IT WOULD BE THAT WAY
Will washed up and sat down at the big black walnut table he had made fifteen years back. Martha had his plate piled high with biscuits, gravy, vegetables and bacon, a cup of coffee with the pot setting on a trivet near him for refilling. "Honey this looks fit for a king. Could I have a little Syrup?" "Of course." "What have you been doing all day?" Martha wondered to herself if that phrase was written on men's tongues and it just rolled around and off when they came home from work. "Nothing...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
JUST CAN'T FIGURE THIS ONE OUT
Well it was a bumper crop day for eggs. She collected seven dozens and every little bit helped. Will would be taking milk to town in the morning and he would take her eggs then. She hid back every cent she got for her eggs. If she was pregnant the money she had saved would be handy. Well she just didn't think that could be possible because she was not the mother type. She would go talk with her friend Minnie when she finished dinner. She was not about to bring up such a thing with Will. He was...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE
She couldn't be pregnant. They had been married for twelve years, twelve whole years. She was thirty-six years old. Who ever heard of a couple being married that long and a woman being that old and having a first child. Martha had been born just thirty-five years after the Civil War. She had lived through so much change in her life and the great depression was no fun trip and now she is pregnant. There was no mistaking the fact that at breakfast this morning there was movement in her stomach...
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