Mending Manuscripts

Mending Manuscripts

Image by Esther Merbt from Pixabay

Long, long ago, when I was a wee lass, my mother was teaching me all the ins and outs of what the school system called “Home Economics”. I learned to knit (potholders), to cook (crushing Graham crackers for Mom’s cheesecake crust) to make beds with hospital corners. I learned to iron, starting with my dad’s handkerchiefs (because then all men carried white handkerchiefs) and pillowcases.

Mom and Dad’s generation had lived through the Depress...