by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. I’d gathered a few friends for lunch at a nearby downtown square recently when suddenly the ice in our glasses began to rattle. Then the floor began vibrating and within seconds the plate glass in the café window shook with...
by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. My list of places that I can’t take husband Herb grows longer by the day. Today I added hospitals to my catalogue of banned spots. We were visiting a good friend who was mending her way out of some sort of surgery and for...
by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. The woman was incensed …out of her mind angry. “Freida, I tried to call you twice this morning!” “Happens a lot, Mildred.” “Twice! Why didn’t you answer?” “I wasn’t near a...
by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. A couple of disturbing surveys were released this week. I read that two vital pillars of our society take a drastic slam in the summertime. Once the hot weather hits, both church attendance and blood donations take a severe...
by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. They call them First World Problems, those gripes that would make Third World citizens roll their eyes in disgust at our affluent lifestyles. “My $6 Starbucks latte came with one espresso instead of two,”...
