Bud Grossmann’s Words of the Week for the Week of April  12, 2015 Previously unpublished fiction © 2015 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.   Check Register (2015) © 2015 by Bud Grossmann NO USE CRYING Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:30AM Last night, while Celeste was downtown counting ballots, I somehow knocked over a bigger-than-a-pint red plastic water glass that she had abandoned at lunchtime atop the inch-thick maple cutting board on our dining room table. As an optimist, I calculate the vessel was half full until the moment when I made it entirely empty, splashing its contents across Celeste’s array of tax papers, a used-once table cloth, and two dining room chairs. Good thing I haven’t gotten around to hauling the living room couch to the curb (to make room beside the fireplace for Celeste’s spinet piano, which is still at her “old” house, presumably silent) because the couch and the ancient quilt on top of it performed excellently in drying damp documents overnight. One packet of papers, the most valuable of all, and directly in the path of the flood, miraculously suffered no damage because they were in a plastic sleeve marked Papers for Tax Preparer. A dozen other envelopes and stacks of statements, however, were thoroughly soaked. Celeste’s 2014 check register suffered a direct hit, but I cooked it for an hour beneath a bright table lamp and then flattened it overnight with the American Heritage Dictionary 5th Edition, thus reassuring myself that the Internet has not yet made one of my favorite big books obsolete. ♦         ARCHIVES         Click for a list of other Words of the Week I would welcome your thoughts on this page (or any of my others).  Write to me at the following address.  Please be sure to spell Grossmann with two n’s and mention what page you are writing about. Thanks!  BUD GROSSMANN Top of this page | HOME | Fine Photography | Picture of the Day | Writings | | Words of the Week | Mom & Pop Prop. Mgt. | FAQ |

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