Tag: Grocery Store

Good Times Tomorrow!

I watched as my mother selected things we needed (bread, milk, cigarettes) and put them in the cart. I watched her consider things we didn’t need but would like (steaks, orange juice, cookies), and choose a few of those as well. She calculated, the prices slipping over her lips like a murmur. ~ From “Saturday Shopping” […]

Good Times in Nine Days

No one talks all that much in public, in that polite-society way we North Americans, we midwesterners especially, do. ~ From “Your Comfortable Shopping” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just nine days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with friends and family and […]