Debby Bull

You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,_ she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn__ said __busive,_ I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.

Your like Martha Stewart on crack,_ my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.

It was obvious that the woman was trying to turn over a new leaf, so we bought all her bowls. I got a gigantic stoneware one with a flat bottom, like you__ use if you were making bread for the whole army, and I knew I would have to change my whole life to have a use for this bowl.

Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.