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My husband and I got into an argument the other day. Nothing terribly unusual there; after more than a quarter-century of marriage, and the last 15 months living in each other’s pockets almost all day every day, we’ve found plenty of ways to get on one another’s nerves.

Ordinary time

One of my favorite things about summer is the food. Fresh fruits and vegetables are in season and on sale — and even better fresh from the garden — ice cream tastes even better on a hot day, and what some people think of as movie theater popcorn will always remind me of the concession stand at the public pool near my childhood home.

A day at the park

I used to have a quote tacked on the bulletin board over my desk: “If I was going to storm a pill box, going to sheer, utter, certain death, and the colonel said, ‘Shepherd, pick six guys,’ I’d pick six White Sox fans, because they have known death every day of their lives and it holds no terror for them,” from humorist Jean Shepherd.

Mother Mary

They start in April, the Mother’s Day commercials and ads. You can tell it’s a Mother’s Day ad when you see a preschooler or even toddler using their adorably pudgy fingers to arrange a breakfast tray of toast and juice and a flower.

What we’ve learned

If you could go back to early March 2020 and give yourself advice for the coming year, what would you say?

Hope springs …

Some say the four most hopeful words in the English language are “pitchers and catchers report.”

We are tired

We are tired of death. That’s what Father Esequiel Sánchez, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, said in his homily at the Feb. 10 funeral of a mother and four young daughters who died in a house fire Jan. 27.

Snow days

Teresa’s school called a snow day last week.

Setting things to rights

The Christmas lights are turned off, if not taken down, and the Christmas tree no longer dominates our living room.

Give a child a can opener

Some of you are probably familiar with the saga of “Bean Dad,” a man who wrote a 23-post Twitter thread about making his 9-year-old daughter figure out on her own how to use a can opene
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