Tried and True

Sometimes, I find myself thinking of expressions or comments my parents made during my youth–things that didn’t really make sense because I was a kid. Yet now that I’m an adult, wow, I get it.

I remember, vividly, my mom saying, “I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off.”

Kind of a weird one, I know. When she’d say it, I’d just think, “ew.” Now, I get it. I always feel as if I’m going a hundred miles an hour (two hundred this week).

I also remember my mom talking about never...