A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Jesus loves me, yes I know! Cuz the Bible tells me so!”

So what is marriage anyway? I never figured it out. And now it is death I don’t understand.

But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear?

Kind is a word like charity; it implies an effort. Like that bumper sticker about random acts of kindness. It should mean how someone always is, not an act he chooses to do.

It is heaven to play, isn’t it? You like coming here because the rest of your life vanishes.