Trying to Have a Life Here…starting with a book sale

Summertime, and school is out. My grandson is here with me daily, a source of delight, laughter, and often the refrain:  “I’m so bored!” I found him lying in the middle of my bed, watching gaming videos on his phone. I requested he feed the chickens when he got a chance. His response to this was:  “I’m trying to have a life here.”

That produced gales of laughter in me, because as a writer, a mother, grandmother, daughter who has care of her elderly mother, a homeowner, I thought: “I’m trying...